Professional Orchestration Volume 2B: The 2nd Key
Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section: Woodwinds & Brass
500 pages, Illustrated, Audio Package w/Naxos Music Library included
Shipping Schedule
Spiral Bound Edition, Q1
Hardback Library Edition, Q1
Color PDF Edition, Q1
Class Use
Because of the techniques covered, along with the inclusion of the Naxos Music Library, Professional Orchestration, Volume 2B, Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section: Woodwinds and Brass is a must supplement for any orchestration class using other texts to cover instrumentation issues. On release, Volumes 2A and 2B will be sold as one volume.
With Volume 2, Orchestrating the Melody Within Each Orchestral Section, we now enter the true study of orchestration because starting here, the student has organized in one place the combinations and devices used in concert and commercial writing. In the field, a major weakness in student writing is that the composition is over weighted in the middle register. Following Volume 1’s approach, all devices and combinations are meticulously organized by the low, medium, high and very high registers, with, in many cases, multiple full page/full score examples demonstrating each technique.
What the student sees, the student hears. What you hear, you learn in your inner ear so that when you hear the device in the musical imagination, you know what it is and how to write for it.
Tapping Technology
Each technique covered in the printed edition is highlighted with a light gray screen. But with the PDF edition, color is used to highlight these techniques. Combined with the Naxos Music Library, and you have a completely portable, value-priced training package only available from Alexander Publishing.
Naxos Music Library
Specific playlists are setup to cover all the musical examples used in Volume 2. Some of the works studied include Carnival of the Animals, Don Juan, Ein Heldenlaben, The Enigma Variations, The Firebird, Isle of the Dead, Mahler Symphony #1, On the Steppes of Central Asia, The Planets, and more.
Please note
Only one (1) Naxos Music Library subscription per student.
What’s Covered
- each technique meticulously researched showing its use in the low, medium, high and very high registers so that the student knows what the device sounds like in each register
- examples by modern composers including Chabrier, Debussy, Dukas, Elgar, Enesco, Holst, Ravel, Schoenberg, Stravinsky, Webern and others
- recording insights for electronic orchestration
