Orchestration - selected bibliography


The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments. edited by Stanley 
Sadie. 3v. New York : Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984.

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Adler, Samuel. The Study of Orchestration, 2nd ed. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1989. 

Andersen, Arthur Olaf. Practical Orchestration. Boston: CC Birchard,
1929.

Bartolozzi, Bruno. New Sounds for Woodwind, 2nd ed. Tr. and ed. by 
Reginald Smith Brindle. London: Oxford University Press, 1982.

Bekker, Paul. The Orchestra. NY: Norton, 1936, 1963.

Blatter, Alfred. Instrumentation/Orchestration. NY: Longman, 1980. 
Included are comprehensive lists on notation of 20th century music,
computer music, and some ethnomusicological symbols.

Brindle, Reginald Smith. Contemporary Percussion. London: Oxford
University Press, 1970.

Bunger, Richard. The Well-Prepared Piano. Colorado Springs, Colo.: 
Colorado College Music Press, 1973.

Cole, Hugo. Sounds and Signs: Aspects of Musical Notation. London: 
Oxford University Press, 1974.

Cope, David H. New Directions in Music, 5th ed. Dubuque, Iowa: 
William C. Brown, 1989.

Cummings, Barton. The Contemporary Tuba. New London. CT: Whaling
Music Publishers, 1984.

Dempster, Stuart. The Modern Trombone: A Definition of its Idiom.
Berkeley: University of California Press, 1980.

Erickson, Robert. Sound Structure in Music. Berkeley: University
of California Press, 1975.

Fletcher, N. H. and T. D. Rossing. The Physics of Musical Instruments. 
Springer Verlag, 1981.

Howell, Thomas. The Avant-Garde Flute. Berkeley: University of
California Press, 1974.

Kennan, Kent. The Technique of Orchestration. Eng. Cliffs, NJ: Prentice-
Hall, 1952, 1970, 1983.

Leibowitz, Rene and Jan Maguire. Thinking for Orchestra. NY: Schirmer,
1960.

Mancini, Henry. Sounds and Scores. Northridge Music inc./Wise
Publications, 1962.
comes with recordings of Mancini's examples matching the ones in
the text.

Peinkofer, Karl and Fritz Tannigel. Handbook of Percussion 
Instruments. NY: Schott, 1969.

Piston, Walter, 1894-1976. Orchestration. [1st ed.] New York: Norton, 
1955. London: V. Gollancz, 1961.

Randel, Don Michael, ed. The New Harvard Dictionary of Music. Cambridge, 
MA: The Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1986.

Read, Gardner. Contemporary Instrumental Techniques. New York: 
Schirmer Books, 1976. 

Read, Gardner. Music Notation, 2nd ed. Boston: Allyn and Bacon, Inc., 
1969.

Reed, H. Owen and Joel T. Leach. Scoring For Percussion. Eng. Cliffs, NJ:
1969.

Rehfeldt, Philip. New Directions for Clarinet. Berkeley: University of 
California Press, 1977.

Riddle, Nelson. book on pop orchestration

Rimsky Korsakow, Nicolas. Principles of Orchestration. orig., 1891.
NY: Kalmus, n.d.

Risatti, Howard A. New Music Vocabulary. A Guide to Notational Signs 
for Contemporary Music. Urbana: Univ. of Illinois Press, 1973.

Salzedo, Carlos. Modern Study for the Harp. New York: G. Schirmer, 1921.

Salzedo, Carlos. Method for the Harp. New York: G. Schirmer,1929.

Stone, Kurt. Music Notation in the Twentieth Century. New York: W. W. 
Norton & Company, Inc., 1980.

Turetzky, Bertram. The Contemporary Contrabass, rev. ed. Berkeley: 
University of California Press, 1989.

Vinton, John, ed. Dictionary of Contemporary Music. New York: E. P. 
Dutton & Co., Inc., 1974.

Wagner, Joseph. Band Scoring: A Comprehensive Manual. NY: McGraw-Hill.

Wagner, Joseph. Orchestration: a Practical Handbook. NY: McGraw-Hill,
1959.

White, Charles L. Drums Through the Ages. Los Angeles: Sterling Press,
1960.

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