Composition & Orchestration

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..

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..

First Published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company...

Improvisation was a crucial aspect of musical life in Europe from the late 18th century to the mid-19th. Composers devoted themselves to this practice while formulating the musical ideas found at the core of their published works; improvisation was linked to composition itself. The full extent of th..

This book is a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. It covers everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's vision with the needs of the film itself. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers and musical examples._x000D_..

This book is a comprehensive guide to scoring for film and television. It covers everything from timing, cuing, and recording through balancing the composer's vision with the needs of the film itself. It contains over 100 interviews with noted composers and musical examples._x005F_x000D_..

Peter Schat here explains, with the clarity and simplicity which form two of his compositional aims, how he devised and uses his new and controversial system of composing and analyzing serial music. "The Tone Clock" includes analyses of musical examples and a selection of Peter Schat's polemical wri..