Orchestral Combinations
Subtitle: The Science and Art of Instrumental Tone-Color
Publisher: The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Published: March 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780810848146
Subjects: Orchestras; Music/Songbooks; Music; Musical Instruments - General; Music / Musical Instruments / General; Instrumentation and orchestrat; Instrumentation and orchestration
Description: "Orchestral Combinations demonstrates specific instrumental combinations that have intrigued past and present composers and suggests other groupings that may prove to be of equal validity and tonal interest. This book is a thesaurus of orchestral combinations, a lexicon of the science and art of fusing timbre and sonority in symphonic scoring. Few standard manuals devote such attention to this fascinating subject as it directly relates to the imaginative deployment of orchestral instruments."--BOOK JACKET.