Essential Dictionary of Orchestration (Item: 00-17894)

by Black, Dave

• ISBN13: 9780739000212
• ISBN10: 0739000217
• eBook ISBN(s): 9781457412998
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1998-10-01
• Publisher: 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