Orchestral Music

✍ Scribed by Daniels, David

• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Tongue: English
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Also Available: Orchestral Music Online

This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include:

Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5)

Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.)

Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service)

Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings

Lists of required percussion equipment for many works

New, more intuitive format for instrumentation

More contents notes and durations of individual movements

Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places,...

✦ Subjects

Composers;Composers--Biography;Compositeurs--Biographies;Music--20th century--History and criticism;Music appreciation;;Music;Criticism, interpretation, etc.;Biography;Biographies;Composers -- Biography;Music -- 20th century -- History and criticism;Compositeurs -- Biographies