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This book continues where Band Orchestration - Volume 1 left off. Here, we take a deep dive into the world of woodwinds. With over 150 photos, 400 musical examples, and 200 charts, this book offers one of the most complete looks at woodwind scoring available. Part instrumentation guide, part orchestration treatise, and part instrument encyclopedia, this book will serve as a solid reference for band and orchestral composers alike.
Lucien Cailliet's concert band arrangement for Richard Wagner's Elsa'a Procession to the Cathedral maintains the timeless elegance that has made this piece a standard. (5: 57)
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!
Some thirty-two experts from fifteen countries join three of the world's leading authorities on the design, manufacture, performance and history of brass musical instruments in this first major encyclopedia on the subject. It includes over one hundred illustrations, and gives attention to every brass instrument which has been regularly used, with information about the way they are played, the uses to which they have been put, and the importance they have had in classical music, sacred rituals, popular music, jazz, brass bands and the bands of the military. There are specialist entries covering every inhabited region of the globe and essays on the methods that experts have used to study and understand brass instruments. The encyclopedia spans the entire period from antiquity to modern times, with new and unfamiliar material that takes advantage of the latest research. From Abblasen to Zorsi Trombetta da Modon, this is the definitive guide for students, academics, musicians and music lovers.
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