Textures and timbres
Subtitle: an orchestrator's handbook
By: Henry Brant
Publisher: C. Fischer; Carl Fischer Music; Brand: Carl Fischer Music
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 257
ISBN-13: 9780825868276
Subjects: Instrumentation and orchestration
Other titles: Orchestrator's handbook
Table of contents: title: General premises. Classification of instruments in groups according to tone-quality; title: Groups of closely related instrumental timbres; title: Harmonic balance; title: Volume; title: The arrangement of timbres in harmonic situations; title: The arrangement of timbres in contrapuntal situations; title: Dissonance; title: Consonance; title: Unisons; title: Octaves and double octaves; title: General types of musical material; title: Uniformity in the number of notes in successive chords; title: Uniformity in articulation; title: Vibrato; title: The termination of long notes; title: Joints and separations; title: Extreme registers; title: Which comes first, composing the music or choosing the timbres?; title: The piano as a pitch guide in preparing musical material for orchestration; title: Equivalents of the piano's damper pedal; title: Simulated bell timbres; title: Timbre groups and combinations of tone-qualities. Wind timbres; title: The four wind-timbre groups, studied separately; title: The four wind-timbre groups in combinations; title: Percussion timbres; title: Classification of percussion instruments by dynamic range; title: Definite-pitched percussion; title: Indefinite-pitched percussion; title: Definite- and indefinite-pitched  percussion together; title: The roll; title: Composing for percussion; title: Definite-pitched percussion with winds; title: The piano as an orchestral instrument; title: Pizzicato timbres; title: Pizzicato group and piano staccato; title: Pizzicato group and definite-pitched percussion with piano staccato; title: Pizzicati in unison with winds (groups I, II, and III); title: The bowed strings; title: Wind-groups I and II with bowed strings; title: Bowed strings with horns and saxophones (wind-group III); title: Bowed strings with open trumpets and trombones (wind-group IV); title: Bowed strings with open tuba and euphonium (wind-group IV); title: Tutti formations; title: Epilog; title: App. 1. Ranges of the four individual strings of the bowed violin, viola, cello and bass; title: App. 2. Alternatives for col legno battuto; title: App. 3. Nineteenth- and twentieth-century tendencies in orchestration; title: App. 4. Expanded unisons (supplementary to wind-groups I, II, III, and IV); title: App. 5. Contrasted nasal timbres (pp) in combination.