Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge guide to orchestration / Ertugrul Sevsay.

Author

Sevsay, Ertuğrul

Publication

New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013.

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Description

xxii, 656 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Summary

Demonstrating not only how to write for orchestra but also how to understand and enjoy a score, The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration is a theoretical and practical guide to instrumentation and orchestration for scholars, professionals and enthusiasts. With detailed information on all the instruments of the orchestra, both past and present, it combines discussion of both traditional and modern playing techniques to give the most complete overview of the subject. It contains fifty reduced scores to be re-orchestrated and a wide range of exercises, which clarify complex subjects such as multiple stops on stringed instruments, harmonics and trombone glissandi. Systematic analysis reveals the orchestration techniques used in original scores, including seven twentieth-century compositions. This Guide also includes tables and lists for quick reference, providing the ranges of commonly used instruments and the musical names and terminology used in English, German, Italian and French [Publisher description]

Subject

• Instrumentation and orchestration
• Orchestration
• Instrumentation
• Instrumentation and orchestration

Genre/Form

Lehrbuch

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (page 643) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Theory : String instruments ; Wind instruments ; Percussion instruments ; Plucked instruments ; Keyboard instruments -- Practice : Exercises ; Scores and analyses ; Summary and a further look at the scores of the twentieth century.

ISBN

• 9781107025165 (hardback)
• 1107025168 (hardback)

LCCN

^^2012042435

OCLC

• 814982226
• SCSB-10389343

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library