Contemporary Orchestration: A Practical Guide to Instruments, Ensembles, and Musicians teaches students how to orchestrate for a wide variety of instruments, ensembles, and genres, while preparing them for various real-world professional settings ranging from the concert hall to the recording studio. Unlike most orchestration texts, it includes coverage of contemporary instruments and ensembles alongside traditional orchestra and chamber ensembles.
Features
- Practical considerations: Practical suggestions for choosing a work to orchestrate, and what to avoid when writing for each instrument.
- Pedagogical features
- In the Profession: Professional courtesies, considerations and expectations.
- Building the Score: Step-by-step construction of an orchestration.
- Scoring Examples: Multiple scoring examples for each instrument.
- Exercises: Analyzing, problem solving, and creating orchestration solutions.
- Critical Thinking: Alternate approaches and solutions.
- ISBN13 9781317806257
- Publish Date 17 December 2014 (first published 1 January 2014)
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country GB
- Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Imprint Routledge
- Format eBook
- Pages 484
- Language English