From Piano to Strings is the first volume of three in our 50th Anniversary Edition of Professional Orchestration: A Practical Handbook. Here, you learn 13 broad techniques from the Reference Chart of Keyboard Idioms for turning piano parts into full scale string ensembles. Each example contains the original part and the string ensemble orchestration above it along with text explaining the background to the orchestration. Newly added text examines MIDI mockup issues. Newly created MIDI examples contain both piano and string parts as shown below.

Included for additional study is Grieg's Holberg Suite for Piano and separate orchestration for string ensemble. See how Grieg used these very techniques to create his remarkable score. (See Video below)

Use From Piano to Strings to push your orchestration and MIDI mockup skills to new levels.

To get the most out of From Piano to Strings:

Available for separate purchase - Professional Orchestration: A Practical Handbook Workbook/Audio Package. The workbook contains dozens of challenging piano excerpts keyed to the Reference Chart of Keyboard Idioms. It comes with audio files of all the piano parts in the workbook and the book examples. More than 100 audio files in high quality MP3 format! This package is used for all three books (From Piano to Strings, From Piano to Woodwinds and From Piano to Orchestra) so only one purchase is necessary.

Available for separate purchase - Professional Orchestration 2A: Orchestrating the Melody Within the String Section.