The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration

680 Pages·2013·42.163 MB·English

by  Ertuğrul Sevsay

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TheCambridgeGuidetoOrchestration
Demonstratingnotonlyhowtowritefororchestrabutalsohowto understandandenjoya
score,TheCambridgeGuidetoOrchestrationisatheoreticalandpracticalguidetoinstrumen-
tationandorchestrationforscholars,professionalsandenthusiasts.Withdetailedinformation
onalltheinstrumentsoftheorchestra,bothpastandpresent,itcombinesdiscussionofboth
traditional and modern playing techniques to give the most complete overview of the sub-
ject.Itcontainsfiftyreducedscorestobere-orchestratedandawiderangeofexercises,which
clarifycomplexsubjectssuchasmultiplestopsonstringedinstruments,harmonicsandtrom-
boneglissandi.Systematicanalysisrevealstheorchestrationtechniquesusedinoriginalscores,
includingseventwentieth-centurycompositions.ThisGuidealsoincludestablesandlistsfor
quickreference,providingtherangesofcommonlyusedinstrumentsandthemusicalnames
andterminologyusedinEnglish,GermanItalian,andFrench.
ertug˘rul sevsay m.d., d.m.a. isProfessorofMusicattheUniversityofMusicand
PerformingArtsinVienna,Austria,andhasbeenteachingorchestrationforovertwodecades.
HisextensiveknowledgehasledtothedevelopmentofspecialcoursesinOrchestrationnot
onlyforcomposersandarrangersbutalsoformusicengineersandorchestraconductors.He
hasalwaysbelievedthatorchestrationisjustasimportantforconductorsandsoundengineers
asitisforcomposersandarrangers,andwasinspiredtocreatethiscomprehensiveguideasa
resultofthelectures,seminarsandclasseshehasledindozensofcountriesworldwide.

Ertug˘rul Sevsay
The Cambridge Guide to
Orchestration
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Overview
PartI: Theory
Chapter1 Stringinstruments 3
Chapter2 Windinstruments 71
Chapter3 Percussioninstruments 139
Chapter4 Pluckedinstruments 195
Chapter5 Keyboardinstruments 230
PartII: Practice
Chapter6 Exercises 257
Chapter7 Scoresandanalyses 372
Chapter8 Summaryandafurther
lookatthescoresofthetwentieth
century 594
Appendices 631
Worksconsulted 643