The Study of Orchestration (Second Edition)

The second edition of this highly successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor. Learning orchestration is best achieve through familiarity with the orchestral literature, this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound. There are musical examples throughout the book. Chapter I. Instrumentation 1. The orchestra – yesterday & today 2. Bowed string instruments 3. Individual bowed string instrument 4. Plucked string instruments 5. Scoring for strings 6. The woodwind choir – reed aerophones 7. Individual woodwinds 8. Scoring for woodwinds & woodwind string combinations 9. Introduction to brass instruments 10. Individual brass instruments 11. Scoring for brass & brass combined with strings & winds 12. The percussion ensemble 13. Keyboard instrument 14. Scoring for percussion with Keyboard alone or in combination II. Orchestration 15. Scoring for orchestra 16. The orchestral transcription 17. The orchestra as accompanist 18. The preparation of score & parts Appendix A Appendix B