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 | | Study of Orchestration, Third Edition by Samuel Adler ISBN-10: 039397572X ISBN-10: 0-393-97572-X ISBN-13: 9780393975727 ISBN-13: 978-0-393-97572-7 Hardcover 2002-03 W. W. Norton Find Lowest Price |
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Product Description 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. | ||
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Excellent Resource 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 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 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) 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. | ||
If you really want to know how to orchestrate via textbook Every composer is aware that there are countless orchestration books- and every one will tell you basically about how to do the job. Every book will have your standard instrumentation, how they function mechanically, and ranges, or something to that effect. Of course this is important. However, when it comes down the actual art of Orchestration, elements usually left to experience are taught through Samuel Adler's CD accompanied book. No matter how close a description of an effect, or sound is, the luxury of having a dictionary of them at hand is amazing. Overall, this is a great concept and book- and I don't believe that there is any book out there that does what it does that well. | ||