Essential Dictionary of Orchestration (Item: 00-17894)

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Pub. Date: 1998-10-01
Publisher(s): Alfred Pub Co
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Summary

At last, an orchestration book tailor-made for the classroom musician on a budget. Any teacher, student or professional musician, whether a composer, orchestrator, arranger, performer or enthusiast will find this thoroughly comprehensive dictionary full of the most needed information on over 150 instruments. Designed for quick and easy reference, the Essential Dictionary of Orchestration includes those much-needed instrument ranges, general characteristics, tone quality descriptions, technical pitfalls, useful scoring tips and much more!

Table of Contents

This book is organized in the following manner:
1. Alphabetized by instrument groupings:
6
Bowed Strings About String Technique
6(43)
Clarinets
49(22)
Double Reeds
71(18)
Flutes
89(16)
Fretted Strings About Guitar Notation
105(23)
Harmonica
128(3)
Harps
131(13)
Horns
144(14)
Keyboards
158(25)
Percussion
183(94)
About Percussion Notation
183(2)
Non-Pitched Metals
185(23)
Skins
208(28)
Woods
236(12)
Pitched
248(1)
Electronic
248(1)
Glass
249(1)
Metals
250(16)
Skins
266(7)
Woods
273(4)
Saxophones
277(20)
Trombones
297(15)
Trumpets About Mutes & Articulations
312(23)
Tubas
335(7)
Voice
342(8)
Index
350
2. Alphabetized within each instrument grouping. For example:
Trombones
Alto Trombone
Bass Trombone
Contrabass Trombone
European-Style Bass Trombone
Slide Trumpet
Tenor Trombone
Valve Trombone

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