Orchestration Manuals

... costs a ton, let's hope it's worth it

Anyway I meant PDFs or various previews...

Ludovica wrote:

... it costs a ton, let's hope it's worth it

Anyway, I meant PDFs or various previews...

i bought it via amazon years ago... honestly I don't remember how much I paid for it. but certainly not a ton... idk...

unfortunately I have neither pdfs nor previews...

Very interesting topic, I wouldn't know what to add. I hardly know any of the proposed books but I trust them. Ludovica and Zazzà's links are also convenient

scelsi wrote:

il piston non lo conosco.

It also contains a very useful chapter titled: Type of Texture, Analysis & Problems, I think it is sufficiently self-descriptive

scelsi wrote:

i do have a certain "alfred blatter" in English though! in the description of the instruments I find it very complete and at the same time easy to consult and schematic.

I managed to get it and indeed it is very well made; actually, "legend" has it that there is also an appendix (which I haven't recovered or seen yet) that collects summary tables for all the instruments; and from what I have been told, they are practical and very well made."

well there's always Berlioz's old great treatise on orchestration.... slightly dated ahahaahh but still published by Ricordi

Hi Frank! Could you send me these books in pdf? I would be truly very grateful to you!

GraceRed, which one would interest you? I practically have almost all of them in paper format ... which would also be better for you. Some texts cannot be missing from the library