The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration

A complete textbook, handbook, workbook and quick reference book on orchestration, for composers, arrangers, conductors, music theorists and music engineers.

Ertu?rul Sevsay (Author)

9781107025165, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 25 April 2013

675 pages, 25 b/w illus. 707 music examples
25.3 x 19.4 x 3.5 cm, 1.61 kg

'This work is 'what you see is what you get' - a sourcebook but also a working textbook for practical study and investigation … A distinctive and valuable addition in its field …' Stuart Hannabuss, Reference Reviews

Demonstrating not only how to write for orchestra but also how to understand and enjoy a score, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration is a theoretical and practical guide to instrumentation and orchestration for scholars, professionals and enthusiasts. With detailed information on all the instruments of the orchestra, both past and present, it combines discussion of both traditional and modern playing techniques to give the most complete overview of the subject. It contains fifty reduced scores to be re-orchestrated and a wide range of exercises, which clarify complex subjects such as multiple stops on stringed instruments, harmonics and trombone glissandi. Systematic analysis reveals the orchestration techniques used in original scores, including seven twentieth-century compositions. This Guide also includes tables and lists for quick reference, providing the ranges of commonly used instruments and the musical names and terminology used in English, German, Italian and French.

Introduction
Part I. Theory: 1. String instruments
2. Wind instruments
3. Percussion instruments
4. Plucked instruments
5. Keyboard instruments
Part II. Practice: 6. Exercises
7. Scores and analyses
8. Summary and a glance at the music of the twentieth century
Appendices.

Subject Areas: Musical scores, lyrics & libretti [AVQ], Music: styles & genres [AVG], Music [AV]