The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration

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.

CONTENIIDO:

Introduction
Acknowledgements

Part I. Theory

1. String instruments
-General information
-Bowing
-Multiple stops
-Division of the strings
-Special effects
-Historical string instruments

2. Wind instruments
-General information
-Woodwind instruments
-Brass instruments
-Notation of the wind instruments
-Methods of sound production and special effects
-Wind instruments which are seldom use in the orchestra or are obsolete

3. Percussion instruments
-General information
-Beaters
-Idiophones
-Membranophones
-Chordophones
-Aerophones
-Notation of percussion instruments

4. Plucked instruments
-Harp
-Guitar
-Other plucked instruments
-Historical plucked instruments

5. Keyboard instruments
-Piano
-Celesta
-Harpsichord and other quill instruments
-Clavichord
-Organ
-Other aerophones

Part II. Practice

6. Exercises
-Haydn: Symphony No. 104 in D major
-Mozart: Symphony No. 40 in G minor
-Mozart: Symphony No. 41 in C major (Jupiter)
-Schumann: Symphony No. 1 in Bb major
-Schumann: Symphony No. 2 in C major
-Tchaikovsky: Serenade for Strings
-Mahler: Symphony No. 9 in D major
-Haydn: Symphony No. 100 in C major
-Beethoven: Symphony No. 5 in C minor
-Schubert: Symphony No. 8 in B minor (Unfinished)
-Brahms: Symphony No. 2 in D major
-Brahms: Symphony No. 3 in F major
-Tchaikovsky: "The Nutcracker" Overture
-Dvorák: Symphony No. 9 in E minor (From the New World)
-Wagner: Tristan und Isolde, "Vorspiel"
-Mahler: Symphony No. 4 in G major
-Strauss: Also sprach Zarathustra
-Debussy: La mer, De l'aube à midi sur la mer
-Scriabin: Poem of Ecstasy
-Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Tuileries"
-Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Promenade"
-Beethoven: Symphony No. 1 in C major
-Schubert: Symphony No. 9 in C major
-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4 in F minor
-Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 5 in E minor
-Rimsky-Korsakov: Scheherezade
-Wagner: Das Rheingold
-Mahler: Symphony No. 1 in D major (Titan)
-Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, "Ballet des poussins dans leurs coques"
-Mussorgsky/Ravel: Pictures at an Exhibition, "La Grande Porte de Kiev"
-Debussy: La mer, Jeux de vagues
-Stravinsky: Petrushka, "The Shrovetide Fair"
-Stravinsky: The Firebird, "The princesses play with the golden apples"
-Schoenberg: Five Pieces for Orchestra, "Vorgefühle"
-Webern: Six Pieces for Orchestra
-Respighi: The Pines of Rome, "The Pines of the Appian Way"

7. Scores and analyses
[Same as chapter 6]

8. Summary and a further look at the scores of the twentieth century
-Summary
-Berg: Three Pieces for Orchestra, "Praeludium"
-Dutilleux: Symphony No. 1
-Berio: Laborintus II
-Ligeti: Atmosphères, for large orchestra without percussion
-Boulez: Notations
-Lutoslawski: Chain 3, for orchestra
-Penderecki: De natura sonoris

Appendices
-Electrophones
-Tabulation of the ranges of the frequently used orchestral instruments
-Names of frequently used orchestral instruments in English, Italian, German and French
-Frequently used orchestral terms in English, Italian, German and French

Works consulted
Index