Study of Orchestration

Hi! I was looking for some books on Orchestration, and I came across this one "Study of Orchestration, Third Edition

by Samuel Adler". I thought I had download it from the internet but when it was finished I realized I just got the 6 CDs. Does any of you have the book?

Regards.

Daniel Tkach

hem...

"download it from the internet"? You mean, I assume, a pirated copy, right?

If this is the case then, NO I won't give you the 6 CDs!

If not, then all copies are accopmanied by the CDs (don't know if there is a digital form), so you might as well complain to the store you got it from. OR, go back and see if the book had different pricing with the CDs, and just buy the Cds as well, or something like that...

Why don't you just buy the book?

It's a decent book, though I disagree with various aspects of his approach. He espouses the "safe" orchestration junk.

Flint, it is a rather old book... But at least the language is really decent (as opposed to Blatter, which I don't fancy actually, exactly because of the language) and I find the information in Adler rather... "accurate" (not the exact word I'd use, but anyhow).

Hmm... now that I think of it, I use(d) (And still do some times) almost exclusively the instrumentation part more than the orchestration part which I've almost not read. hmmm. That could mean something...

I think it is a quite good book. The majority of the teachers here suggest this book, and I think it has lots of details about how each instrument is played, its characteristics, and examples from various composers, old but also recent (unlike Rimsky-Korsakov's book on orchestration which uses only examples from his works). So, I think it's a good book overall. :) I've used it a few times, although I got the most information about instruments from talking with instrumentalists, so if you can do that, there's nothing better you can do :D

I'm partial to the Kennan/Grantham orchestration book

This is kind of neat.

Principles of Orchestration On-line - northernsounds.com

hem...

"download it from the internet"? You mean, I assume, a pirated copy, right?

Yes, that's right. Someone uploaded the cds and I downloaded them; I thought the book was there too, but it's only the cds... I guess I'll have to buy the book if none of you can upload a scanned copy... hey! 75 dollars plus 20 dollars shipping! That's a lot of money for me right now.

Yeah, I'll just scan it in for you, screw it being totally illegal, I see you don't have a great deal of money and so I'll just pretend that I'm not breaking the law, and effectively stealing from the author.

I have the book. I would upload it.. IF you'd give me lots of cash. I'm thinking 100-200 bucks. ;) No? Well, fine. I'll just keep it to myself, then. Mmmm...It is a great book, yes.

well... no help for a poor boy... I guess I'll have to save and buy the book. It looks it's worth every cent. So it's a great book, uh?

I was planning to spend like 400 dollars in orchestration, harmony, counterpoint, psychology of music books. But that one wasn't in my list. You can see my list if you go to Amazon.com: Online Shopping for Electronics, Apparel, Computers, Books, DVDs & more and click on gifts and wish lists, and then enter my email address hokanokoto@gmail.com. You have to order the books according to priority, you'll see all the books related to the topics mentioned above. Then there are a lot of books on phonetics and accent reduction; that's my old forgotten hobby.

I've been working on that list reading reviews and browsing through the books for a couple of weeks; it think I selected not only the ones I liked, but most of them are must have books for any musician. Have a look if you have time and tell me what you think, please. For sure you'll find some that will please your heart.

Kind regards,

Daniel Tkach

Go to a library if you don't want to pay...that's what I did

What, nobody shares the inherently free, but donation-ran utopia I do? As in, some unfortunate boy who wants to be a great composer but cannot pay for books, should be denied that knowledge? Knowledge should belong to humanity! And those who have the finances to pay for a book, do, but if you don't... fine! Colleges have got the right idea on that front, what with offering need-based financial aid and...

Of course it's a distant utopia. What a wonderful community it would be though.

Why do so many people on this board speak in the most cryptic, donkey backward ways?

What, nobody shares the inherently free, but donation-ran utopia I do? As in, some unfortunate boy who wants to be a great composer but cannot pay for books, should be denied that knowledge? Knowledge should belong to humanity! And those who have the finances to pay for a book, do, but if you don't... fine! Colleges have got the right idea on that front, what with offering need-based financial aid and...

Of course it's a distant utopia. What a wonderful community it would be though.

If one can prove to me that

A. the are "talented"

B. The are in need

By all means...

I do recall, not too much into the past that I donated 50$ to someone who needed them, and certainly was talented and I know for a fact that the money went to good use (not bread for his children, but anyhow to really good use). It made me realy happy to see that happen. :)

Of course, we ALSO have a orchestration masterclass of our own here on the forum to which people are most welcome to participate.

:whistling:

Wanders away, to go back to preparing materials for that course...

Hey! That's gooooooooooooooood. :toothygrin: Looking forward to it.

There's something only 45 seconds long I wrote long ago ( for piano) which I think would sound great with cellos, violins , oboes and all that :D

I installed Nuendo and I'm trying to figure out how it works... :blink: