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

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.

(Amadeus). Score reading provides insights into the musical structure of a work that are difficult to obtain from merely listening. Many listeners and amateurs

In what is probably the best general book on the subject, a noted English composer describes 57 orchestral instruments, tracing their origins, development, and

This book develops ways of discussing musical practices to articulate a new approach to understanding connections between recordings, singers, and singing. Cent