How do you define Horizontal vs Vertical development?ChameleonMusic wrote: ↑Fri Jan 03, 2020 9:03 pm Therein lies a potential issue when approaching this sort of orchestral work - thinking about it in terms of chords / harmony. The vast majority of successful composers (classical / film whatever) will be writing / thinking along melodic lines much more - they compose horizontally more than they compose vertically! Then the underlying harmonies simply embed themselves as the various melodies interact.
I'd always thought (after watching a few Mike Verta videos, and simplifying) is that Vertical development is adding instruments (and volume/dynaimcs), and Horizontal development was evolving the melody.