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Principles of Orchestration
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- Amazon Sales Rank: #126059 in Books
- Published on: 1964-06-01
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 489 pages
Customer Reviews
Excellent resource
Rimsky-Korsakov does an excellent job describing instrumental qualities within a section of an orchestra in "Principles of Orchestration." His book addresses "resonance" better than most other orchestration books. If you're looking for a reference on properties of instruments this book will come up short. This book has helped me to gain a deeper knowledge and appreciation of how and why to score things properly. As stated in other reviews, this shouldn't be your only orchestration book, but it is absolutely an excellent one to have.
Excellent book for who wants to wirte music. Most practical book
I don't think any book can come close to this book. In terms of the organization and practicallity. RK is the most famous for its colorful and decent orchestration. Just to let you know, there is an Online version of the book perfectly done by Gary Garritan Team at www.northernsounds.com. But still you need to book for a further information.
The book and website have been already adopted by many school. Plus it is very cheap and almost all examples can be listened and read using Macromedia Flesh.
19th century Orchestration
Rimsky-Korsakov's treatise deals with many of the common issues of orchestration but is steeped in the music of the 19th century when it was written. The modern student of orchestration needs to study orchestral techniques of the 20th century as well as the techniques of the earlier musical periods. Another failure of this treatise is that Rimsky-Korsakov only uses extracted examples from his own compositions. This limits the breadth of the work and provides no understanding of other composer's methods. Overall this book has some useful information provided by a clever orchestrator but should be seen more as an addendum to the broader, more modern, more detailed and less egocentric works of Piston and Adler.
