There is a great little book, 'Orchestral Technique' by Gordon Jacob too. Rimsky Korsakov is available online: http://www.garritan.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=34
and a Jazz arranging course by (our own!) wonderful Chuck Israels: http://www.garritan.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=41 Steve P. On 16 Sep 2011, at 11:35, David H. Bailey wrote: > On 9/16/2011 12:27 AM, [email protected] wrote: >> ...although the books by Piston and Rimsky-Korsakov'll do in a pinch! >> > > Actually these days I find that for notational information as well as > range information and playing techniques, Andrew Stiller's Handbook of > Instrumentation to be much better than any books on orchestration, which > seem to discuss which instruments work well together and which don't > rather than discussing the technical details such as whether an > instrument is notated with an octave displacement or not. Stiller's > book is my go-to reference when I need specific information about an > instrument. > > > -- > David H. Bailey > [email protected] > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
