Announcing the Professional Orchestration Vol. 1
Ultimate Learning Package.
Combining traditional orchestration and electronic scoring, Professional Orchestration™ is the most complete orchestration curriculum ever created.
Professional Orchestration™ Series
Professional Orchestration™ is the first multi-volume series ever produced by an American publisher. Volume 1, Solo Instruments and Orchestration Notes, is the first and only orchestration text to have music industry support from Creative Labs, EastWest, and the Vienna Symphonic Library. Covers the traditional one semester class with more:
The Professional Mentor™ 15-lesson 4-color Workbook - Features real world writing assignments that on completion gives learners 13 or more publishable compositions and optional demo CD of their work.
Exclusive Recording Workshop and MIDI Editing Lab - Part of the Professional Mentor™. Comes with 13 pre-recorded solo instrument arrangements with MIDI files courtesy the Vienna Symphonic Library, arranged by Jay Bacal, to compare to recorded works.
12 Hours of Music in MP3 format licensed from eClassical.com - Student feedback told us they wanted to listen, "on the run." With these Digital Rights Management-free MP3s students can listen anytime anywhere from an iPod to a cell phone!
One Book/One Price - printed or Digital Download editions containing Professional Orchestration™, the Professional Mentor™, 13 Recordings/MIDI Files from the Vienna Symphonic Library, and 12 hours of music in DRM-free MP3s that students can listen to anywhere anytime.
Writing For Strings™
Building from Professional Orchestration™, this is a 1-2 semester course designed to teach both writing for “real” strings and “sampled” strings. Comes with 200-page 4-color lessons, String Positions booklet in 4-color, 500-pages of PDF’ed scores for analysis, complete MIDI files and MP3 of electronic realization of Debussy’s Jeux de vagues from La Mer, and Jupiter from The Planets as produced by Andrew Blaney (composer for the BBC), courtesy Andrew Blaney and the Vienna Symphonic Library. More Information >
How Ravel Orchestrated: Mother Goose Suite
First in a series. Examine the scoring techniques of Maurice Ravel using a newly engraved score with piano part at page bottom, a recorded CD performance licensed from Naxos Recordings, the Mother Goose story each piece is based on, analysis of Ravel’s technique, and much more. More Information >
Scoring Papers
New! 200-page 8.26 x 11.7 (A4) sketch book perfect-bound (paperback), 16 stave plus percussion line. Cream-colored sheets. Either unruled or 4-bar pre-ruled. Grouped by woodwinds (4 staves), brass (5 staves), timpani, percussion, open grand staff (for keyboards, harp, voices, etc.), strings (4 staves).
