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| Study of Orchestration, Third Edition
Hardcover
Edition: 3
Author: Samuel Adler
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Release Date: 2002-03
ISBN-10: 039397572X
ISBN-13: 9780393975727
List Price: $75.00
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The third edition of this high successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor: Learning orchestration is best achieved through familiarity with the orchestral literature; this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound. The text has been revised to reflect the most informed reactions to the first and second editions, as well as Professor Adler's revisions. For comprehensiveness, conciseness, and contemporaneity, The Study of Orchestration remains without peer.
An ancillary set of six enhanced compact discs and a workbook are available separately to accompany this textbook but are not included with the textbook.
focus on playing and writing techniques for each instrument
| Customer Rating:   | Samuel Adler's book covers all important instruments in the modern symphonic orchestra: how they look, how they are played, where they come from, how they sound, how they blend with other instruments, their practial range (both for professional and non-professional players) and the correct notation within various contexts. It also tells the orchestrator about limitations and build-in problems for each instrument and how to deal with it. This alone is worth the price tag.
This book focusses on the orchestral "tone colors" and how they are mixed. Of course the widely accepted notation is widely covered as well in many examples.
I would have loved to have an accompanying CD (which of course would be expensive to produce - but it would immensely add to the value of this work), and I also would have loved to learn more about how to build great sounding voicings and how exactly the various sections dovetail into each other (melodic and harmonic concepts and layers). From this book I know what I can do and what might sound odd. But I gained little insight on how to tackle an orchestration, how to start: the down to earth nuts and bolts.
There are some examples on how great composers broke the rules. But (as I expected) we have no clue about the ideas behind it and if it actually worked. I would love to have for once a book who doesn't make gods out of famous composers (they are, no doubt, but that's old news - true teaching should equal motivation) but let us in on their secrets, at least as much as possible. Also: we know that rules are meant to be broken, but there are even rules on how to break rules. It's just the next level. I would love to have books on that.
Otherwise: very highly recommended! Not to be left out in any orchestrator's library! |
Excellent Resource
| Customer Rating: | | All I can say is these six CDs make all the difference when taking this orchestration course, no matter if it's in a class or on your own. In fact, this whole set, including the book and workbook, was a dream come true for me. Orchestration is greatly demystified with the accompanying CDs. |
Amazing book
| Customer Rating: | | This is the first textbook I've ever had that I couldn't put down. If you love writing classical music, get this book. I have found a few errors, but nothing detrimental to your orchestration education. It cites a lot of very useful examples and contains layers of information. |
Outstanding
| Customer Rating: | I am a complete novice but I recognize this is the required study program. You must also buy the CD/DVDs that go along with the book.
Not cheap, but an outstanding learning tool. I would recommend that you read a book on music theory and composition before buying this set to get the most out of the program. |
Multi-Media companion discs to The Study of Orchestration Book (6 CDs)
| Customer Rating: | This 6-disc set provides audio, video and music, and some musical scores to support the examples in The Study of Orchestration Book. The videos show players playing the various orchestral instruments to illustrate performance techniques. The audio examples let the student hear the various orchestration techniques being discussed. The examples and the book in general are very detailed and absolutely worth the purchase price. I highly recommend the book and CDs to everyone studying orchestration.
The way the discs are used is there is a main menu where the user can select which instruments to view and listen to the examples. There was a strange problem with the discs I received. The digital material and menu do not match the book examples or the content printed on the CDs. Strangely, CD 4 is blank (I've tried to read it on several computers) and the main menu doesn't have any pointers that reference CD 4. Also, the other 5 discs do not contain the contents listed on the CD, many examples are missing. Both my book and the discs are listed as "3rd edition" and the cover graphics are identical. I believe this is a manufacturing problem from the publisher and therefore other sets may also exhibit this problem. Perhaps the digital content on the discs was from the 1st or 2nd edition. I'm still working with the vendor I bought the discs from to get a new set of discs and I'm hopeful the next set I receive contains the correct digital content. |
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