Professional Orchestration Vol. 2B:
Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds and Brass Sections
By Peter Lawrence Alexander
400 pps, Ill., $39.95 Book Only
ISBN-13: 978-0-939067-93-0

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Professional Orchestration continues to make music education history with this historic third volume, Professional Orchestration 2B: Orchestrating the Melody Within the Woodwinds and Brass Sections, yielding dozens of techniques with full page/full score examples. When released in late Spring 2009, the Professional Orchestration Series will have more than 1800 pages of orchestration instruction.

Table of Contents (subject to revision)
Introduction
Woodwinds
Chapter 1 - Unison Combinations
Flute + Oboe
Flute + Clarinet
Oboe + Clarinet
Oboe + English Horn
Bassoon + Clarinet

Oboe + English Horn + Clarinet
Flute + Oboe + Clarinet
Bassoon + Clarinet + Oboe + Flute
Flute + Oboe + English Horn

Chapter 2 - Combinations in Octaves
Flute 1 - Flute 2
Clarinet 1 - Clarinet 2
Oboe 1 - Oboe 2
Bassoon 1 - Bassoon 2

Piccolo - Flute
Piccolo - Oboe
Piccolo - D Clarinet
Piccolo - Clarinet
English Horn - Bassoon
Oboe - Bassoon
Bassoon - Contrabassoon

Flute - Oboe
Flute - English Horn
Flute - Clarinet
Flute - Bassoon
Oboe - Clarinet
Clarinet - Bassoon

Clarinet + Oboe - Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute + Clarinet - Clarinet + Bassoon
2 Flutes + Oboe - 2 Clarinets + English Horn
Flute + Alto Flute - Clarinet + Bass Clarinet
3 Flutes + Oboe - 2 Clarinets + Bassoon + English Horn
Flute + Clarinet - Bassoon
English Horn + Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute + Oboe + Clarinet - Clarinet + Oboe + Bassoon
Flute + Oboe + Clarinet - English Horn + Clarinet
Flute + Oboe - Flute + Oboe + English Horn + Clarinet

Chapter 3 - Doubling in Three Octaves
Piccolo - Flute - Clarinet
Piccolo - Flute - Oboe + Clarinet
Piccolo - Clarinet 1 - Clarinet 2
Flute - Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute - Oboe - English Horn
Flute + Flute - Oboe + English Horn + Clarinet - Bassoon
Piccolo + Flute - Oboe + Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute - Oboe + Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute - Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute - Oboe - Bassoon
Flute - Oboe + Clarinet - Bassoon
Flute - Oboe - English Horn
Oboe - English Horn - Bassoon

Chapter 4 - Doubling in Four and Five Octaves (including mixed timbres)
Flute - Oboe - Clarinet - Bassoon
Picc - 2 Flutes - 2 Oboes + Clarinet - Bassoon
Picc - 2 Flutes - 2 Oboes + 2 Clarinets - 2 Bassoons

Chapter 5 - Melody in Thirds and Sixths
Flute - Flute
Carlinet - Clarinet
Oboe - Oboe
Piccolo - Piccolo

Flute - Flute and Clarinet - Clarinet
2 Flutes - 2 Oboes (6ths)
Flute - Oboe - Bassoon
Flute - Bassoon
2 Clarinets - 2 Bassoons
Oboe - Clarinet
English Horn - Bassoon

Chapter 6 - Melody in The Brass
Trumpets
French Horns
Trombones
Tuba
Trumpets and Horns
Trumpets and Trombones
3 Trumpets, 4 Horns
2 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones
2 Trumpets, 4 Horns, 3 Trombones, Tuba
2 Trombones, Trumpet
2 Horns and Trumpets, Horns in Octaves
Triumphant Melodic Figures
Trumpet
Trombones
Horn Opened and Stopped
Horn in Piano Passages

Chapter 7 - Brass in Unison, Octaves, Thirds and Sixths

Chapter 8 - Brass Combinations
Trumpet - Trumpet
1 Trumpet + 1 Trombone - 2 Trombones
Trumpet - Trombone
Trombone - Trombones
Accenting the Melodic Line
Brass as Background Line