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Ségur, Louis Gaston De

 
9781330119662: A Handbook of Orchestration (Classic Reprint)

Synopsis

Unlock the art of scoring for any ensemble with Practical Orchestration.

This step-by-step guide teaches you how to write clear, balanced scores, notated accurately, for strings, winds, and percussion. This practical manual helps you build solid foundations in orchestration while you learn to work with real scores. It blends theory with hands-on instructions, guiding you through pitch, phrasing, and instrument ranges so your music can be performed with confidence.

  • How to plan and lay out a full score from the bottom up, including staves, clefs, and bar numbering
  • Fundamentals of wood wind and brass writing, including instrument ranges and phrasing considerations
  • Strategies for achieving clear balance among instruments and practical tips for ensemble color
  • Incremental steps to study and compare scores, with exercises that build practical scoring skills
Ideal for students of music, amateur composers, and anyone learning the basics of orchestration for real-world performance.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Excerpt from A Handbook of Orchestration

The paramount need in music teaching at the present time is the training of students as listeners. In order to listen intelligently one must understand the language that is spoken. The principal language of the music of to-day is that of the Orchestra. An intimate knowledge of the grammar of orchestration is, then, the necessary technical equipment of the intelligent listener. The best way to attain this knowledge is by writing orchestral scores, which should in no case be original composition, for one cannot learn the grammar of a language and write poetry in it simultaneously.

Twenty years experience of teaching orchestration on these lines by orchestrating piano-music already in existence, without reference to other branches of musical theory - has convinced me that good listeners can be produced in this way; and that all students, particularly singers and pianists, can be aided thereby towards sound musicianship. Incidentally, if a student is at the same time working through the ordinary academic routine of musical theory which results in composition, by the time he arrives at that goal he has already at hand the technical knowledge of the Orchestra which enables him to transcribe his ideas directly to the Full Score.

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Originally published in 1921. This volume from the Cornell University Library's print collections was scanned on an APT BookScan and converted to JPG 2000 format by Kirtas Technologies. All titles scanned cover to cover and pages may include marks notations and other marginalia present in the original volume.

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