In the process of getting out our 50th Anniversary Edition of Joseph Wagner’s Professional Orchestration: A Practical Handbook, I ran into Lance Bowling of Cambria Music who had been one of Dr. Wagner’s students. Lance is a fountainhead of information. We’ve already spent several hours on the phone. While we were talking about Dr. Wagner, I asked him about this thing on his web site called The Spectratone Chart. It looked to me like the kind of thing Caroline and I would use to pick out paint for the living room. Lance couldn’t really describe it to me over the phone, so he sent me a copy.
It arrived today.
When I opened it up and saw what it was, I nearly choked. Here on a single page is much of the information graphically illustrated that I’ve been trying to translate from classical French from Charles Koechlin’s Treatise on Orchestration.
What a find!
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Awesome review… I always value your opinion and experience when it comes to these libraries Peter. Thank you so much for taking the time to put in all this work.
And I REALLY look forward to any tutorial videos you release and sell to go along with this new library. Your tutorials just seem to be far more clear than anyone else’s.
Thanks for everything!
Warmly,
Brian