A practical guide to professional orchestration featuring recorded musical examples performed by Henry Mancini. Included in the book are sections on the woodwin

Offers the knowledge required to read complex scores, with clear, accessible techniques for identifying and isolating the essential parts. Exercises using excer

This title examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit.

The second edition features a new discussion of the bugle, information on percussion instruments of American and African origin, an extensively rewritten sectio