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Subject: Textbook Suggestions for Introductory Arranging Course?
Hi Annie,
I’m also a big fan of Alfred Blatter’s “Instrumentation and Orchestration.” It is available through Amazon. It has very helpful charts of ranges related to ability levels (elementary, college, professional), which is very practical and which I haven’t found in many other books. The second half of the book has chapters on scoring for different kinds of ensembles, transcription, and arranging, and a list of instrument substitutions. You could easily skip the strings unit. There is not a workbook, but there are exercises in the text that students can complete on staff paper or notation software.
https://www.amazon.com/Instrumentation-Orchestration-Alfred-Blatter/dp/0534251870
Good luck! Jenny From: "scimembers-bounces at societyofcomposers.org<mailto:scimembers-bounces at societyofcomposers.org>" on behalf of SCI Members Mailing List Reply-To: SCI Members Mailing List Date: Monday, August 7, 2017 at 3:25 PM To: SCI Members Mailing List Subject: Re: [scimembers] Textbook Suggestions for Introductory Arranging Course?
I used the Alfred Blatter "Instrumentation and Orchestration" book and really liked it.
Max
On Aug 7, 2017 2:10 PM, "SCI Members Mailing List" <scimembers at societyofcomposers.org<mailto:scimembers at societyofcomposers.org>> wrote: Hello, Colleagues,
I have been asked last minute to teach an undergraduate arranging course. Our curriculum includes Arranging at the undergraduate level and Advanced Orchestration at the graduate level. I believe my predecessor mostly focused brass, winds and percussion since our small school has a very active band program and does not have an orchestra program. Can anyone recommend textbooks? I have taught orchestration before using Adler's Study of Orchestration book, but wondered if there is a more succinct/rudimentary option available for non-composition majors taking this introductory arranging course.
Many thanks! Annie
Anne Neikirk, DMA Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory, Norfolk State University Division of Music<tel:Division%20of%20Music>| Department of Visual and Performing Arts<tel:Department%20of%20Visual%20and%20Performing%20Arts>| web: www.annieneikirk.com<mailto:web:+www.annieneikirk.com>| office: 757-823-9112 | studio: Hamm FAB 415
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Subject: Textbook Suggestions for Introductory Arranging Course?
Hi Annie,
I’m also a big fan of Alfred Blatter’s “Instrumentation and Orchestration.” It is available through Amazon. It has very helpful charts of ranges related to ability levels (elementary, college, professional), which is very practical and which I haven’t found in many other books. The second half of the book has chapters on scoring for different kinds of ensembles, transcription, and arranging, and a list of instrument substitutions. You could easily skip the strings unit. There is not a workbook, but there are exercises in the text that students can complete on staff paper or notation software.
https://www.amazon.com/Instrumentation-Orchestration-Alfred-Blatter/dp/0534251870
Good luck! Jenny From: "scimembers-bounces at societyofcomposers.org<mailto:scimembers-bounces at societyofcomposers.org>" on behalf of SCI Members Mailing List Reply-To: SCI Members Mailing List Date: Monday, August 7, 2017 at 3:25 PM To: SCI Members Mailing List Subject: Re: [scimembers] Textbook Suggestions for Introductory Arranging Course?
I used the Alfred Blatter "Instrumentation and Orchestration" book and really liked it.
Max
On Aug 7, 2017 2:10 PM, "SCI Members Mailing List" <scimembers at societyofcomposers.org<mailto:scimembers at societyofcomposers.org>> wrote: Hello, Colleagues,
I have been asked last minute to teach an undergraduate arranging course. Our curriculum includes Arranging at the undergraduate level and Advanced Orchestration at the graduate level. I believe my predecessor mostly focused brass, winds and percussion since our small school has a very active band program and does not have an orchestra program. Can anyone recommend textbooks? I have taught orchestration before using Adler's Study of Orchestration book, but wondered if there is a more succinct/rudimentary option available for non-composition majors taking this introductory arranging course.
Many thanks! Annie
Anne Neikirk, DMA Assistant Professor of Composition/Theory, Norfolk State University Division of Music<tel:Division%20of%20Music>| Department of Visual and Performing Arts<tel:Department%20of%20Visual%20and%20Performing%20Arts>| web: www.annieneikirk.com<mailto:web:+www.annieneikirk.com>| office: 757-823-9112 | studio: Hamm FAB 415
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