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Combining traditional orchestration and electronic scoring, Professional Orchestration™ Volume 1 is the most complete orchestration training method ever created.
And now we've added free video featuring live orchestral performances of virtually all the examples in Professional Orchestration at our Alexander Publishing online library. Not only do you get to hear the complete work, you also learn about string bowings and orchestral setups to help enhance MIDI mock-up recordings. So if you can't get to the concert hall, we bring the concert hall to you.
Also at the Alexander Publishing online library you'll find bonus links for strings, brass, and woodwinds.
Only Professional Orchestration provides you with this common sense practical book/video/web learning package!
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How the Great Composers
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How Much Orchestration
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Professional Orchestration™ Volume 1 – Recommended by winners of the Academy®, Grammy® and Emmy® Awards, Professional Orchestration is the first multi-volume series in orchestration from an American publisher that teaches the devices and orchestral combinations, which before now have been known by only a privileged few. It’s also the only orchestration book whose instrumentation notes were checked and edited by members of the Hollywood studio musician elite.
This 800-page, 8.5 x 11 perfect bound monster is the only modern oversized orchestration book with full page/full score examples. Why does size matter?
Because with other books, to keep page counts down, you’re given a technique for an instrument with only a single line from the score to illustrate. Professional Orchestration is different in three important ways. First, you get the technique within the context of the full score. This way, you know exactly what’s happening. Second, you learn specific writing techniques for both the solo instrument and the full orchestra. Third, with our new Digital Rights Management-free MP3 audio package (available separately or in our book/audio bundles), you can import an MP3 into your sequencer, locate the position that matches the book, then using your sample libraries, you can do a MIDI mock-up of the example. So from one book you learn:
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Orchestration
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MIDI mock-up skills
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Recording skills
No other orchestration book on the planet does so much for you!
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TABLE OF CONTENTS - Professional Orchestration Volume 1
The First Key: Solo Instruments and Instrumentation Notes
Chapter 1 -String Section Overview
Chapter 2 -The Violin : Basic Information
Chapter 3 -The Viola : Basic Information
Chapter 4 -The Cello : Basic Information
Chapter 5 -The String Bass : Basic Information
Chapter 6 -Bowings, Effects, & Bowing Effects
Chapter 7 -String Stops
Chapter 8 -Divisi
Chapter 9 -Muted Strings
Chapter 10 -Pizzicato
Chapter 11 -Natural and Artificial Harmonics
Chapter 12 -Woodwind Basics
Chapter 13 -The Flute
Chapter 14 -The Piccolo
Chapter 15 -The Oboe
Chapter 16 -The English Horn
Chapter 17 -The Clarinet
Chapter 18 -The Bass Clarinet
Chapter 19 -The Bassoon
Chapter 20 -The Contrabassoon
Chapter 21 -Brass Basics
Chapter 22 -The Bb Trumpet
Chapter 23 -The Tenor and Bass Trombones
Chapter 24 -The Tubas
Chapter 25 -The French Horn
Chapter 26 -The Harp
Chapter 27 -Piano, Organ, Celeste, & Virtual Orchestra
Chapter 28 -The Percussion Section
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