Lange calls his chart a ” thesaurus for orchestral tone-coloring” which is a pretty neat.
17 Sep I recently got in the mail the Lange Spectrotone Chart. The 70th Anniversary Edition of the Spectrotone Chart has updated the ranges from the original. You can order it from Jun Alexander Publishing, a leading publisher of professional music training and production tools, has released The Spectrotone Chart created by. The Spectrotone Chart and booklets are available as a digital download for $19.95. The Spectrotone Chart is designed for a standard 18" x 24" poster sheet for printing, but can be printed in smaller sizes such as US Letter or A4 to fit your needs. The Spectrotone Chart is available as a digital download with two detailed training guides in PDF format. Instruments represented include the string section with tone colors for each individual string, brass with mutes, brass without mutes, woodwinds, all the saxes including soprano sax, piano, harp, celesta bells, timpani, vibes, marimba and xylophone.
Similar to many EQ charts, above the piano keyboard are the colorized tone colors within each instrument's range. Because of its application to mixing and EQ, Alexander Publishing added below each piano key its Hz frequency. The Spectrotone Chart is organized by the 88 keys of the piano with each key numbered, from the bottom A being 1 to the highest C being 88. Combinations are presented in four categories: Perfect, Close, Complimentary, and Remote. With the Spectrotone Chart's color-coded approach, musical combinations can be quickly worked out by instrument, by range, and by specific notes. The result is an approach that works linearly across an instrument's range, and then vertically for showing potential unison (called "layering" in synth language), octave, light harmony, and multi-voice possibilities both within a section and by combining sections.Ĭolors and adjectives Arthur Lange used to describe the tone colors are: Arthur Lange took this approach to the next level by colorizing each instrument's tone colors across their range and provided adjectives for timbre descriptions within each tone color. They described each range break using adjectives. In the past, composer/orchestration book authors Francois Auguste Geveart, Rimsky-Korsakov and others divided each instrument's range into the low, medium, high, and very high registers. In Lange's words, the Spectrotone Chart is, "a colorgraphic exposition of tone-color combinations and balance as practiced in modern orchestration".
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