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The Technique of Orchestration Workbook
- Author: Grantham
- Author: Kennan
The Technique of Orchestration Workbook
- Author: Grantham
- Author: Kennan
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The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, accompanies the textbook of the same name—the definitive resource on the study of orchestration—providing musical excerpts, full scores, and scoring assignments to enrich the lessons learned in the textbook. Spanning an array of periods and styles, the musical examples collected here cover scoring techniques in the following sections:
- Strings
- Woodwinds
- Brass
- Scoring of Chords
- Transcribing Piano Music
- Scoring for Woodwinds, Horns, and Strings
- Percussion
- Harp and Keyboard Instruments
- Scoring for Full Orchestra
Additional learning tools include transposition exercises, error detection drills, and discussions on harmonics, while the workbook pages are perforated throughout for ease of use in and out of the classroom. Featuring the music of Bach, Mozart, Brahms, Beethoven, Schumann, Copland, Bartók, and many more, The Technique of Orchestration Workbook, Seventh Edition, is an invaluable companion to the textbook.
Contents
- STRINGS / J. S. Bach, (harmonization) WAS FRAG ICH NACH DER WELT / CRUSADERS' HYMN / J. S. Bach, (harmonization) AUS TIEFER NOT / J. S. Bach, SARABANDE from the First French Suite / Exercises in Bowing; Use of Alto and Tenor Clefs (selected fragments) / E
- WOODWINDS / Exercises in Notating Transposing Woodwinds (selected fragments) / Exercises in Error Detection (woodwinds) based on Haydn SONATA in D / Schubert, SONATA, Op. 122, first movement / Kuhlau, SONATINA, Op. 55, No. 4, second movement / Beethoven,
- BRASS / Conversion of Parts for Horns and Trumpets in Various Keys to Concert Pitches / J. S. Bach, (harmonization) O HAUPT VOLL BLUT UNO WUNDEN / AMERICA / Morley, DAMON AND PHILLIS from CANZONETS OR LITTLE SHORT AIRS TO FIVE AND SIX VOICES / Grieg, SAIL
- SCORING OF CHORDS / Chords for Orchestra, score study / For woodwinds in pairs; for full woodwind section; for brass; for strings / For "average" orchestra; for large orchestra / For woodwinds in pairs; for brass; for woodwinds in pairs and two horns / Fo
- PROBLEMS IN TRANSCRIBING PIANO MUSIC / Transcribing Piano Music for Orchestra, score study / Rearrangement of pianistic figures (selected fragments) / Beethoven, SONATA, Op. 10, No. 3, first movement / Beethoven, SONATA, Op. 22, first movement /
- SCORING FOR WOODWINDS, HORNS, AND STRINGS / Scoring for Woodwinds, Horns and Strings, score study / Beethoven, SONATA, Op. 90, first movement / Tchaikovsky, AT CHURCH, from ALBUM FOR THE YOUNG / Chopin, NOCTURNE, Op. 55, no 1 (fragment to be scored four w
- PERCUSSION / Schumann, IMPORTANT EVENT, from SCENES FROM CHILDHOOD (timpani part) / Kavalevsky, PRELUDE 24 from 24 PRELUDES (percussion parts) / Prokofiev, MARCH from THE LOVE OF THREE ORANGES (percussion parts) /
- HARP / Kennan, Harp Exercises (rewriting enharmonically) / Kennan, Harp Exercises (rewriting, setting pedals for glissandos) /
- ORCHESTRA / Bartek, No. 12 from FIFTEEN HUNGARIAN PEASANT SONGS / CRUSADERS' HYMN / Exercise in Error Detection (orchestra) / Bartek, No. 1 from FIFTEEN HUNGARIAN PEASANT SONGS / Schumann, FANTASIA, Op. 17 / MacDowell, A DESERTED FARM / Tcherepnine, FANTA
- SCORING FOR HIGH SCHOOL ORCHESTRA / Debussy, GOLLIWOGG'S CAKE WALK, from THE CHILDREN'S CORNER
