I'll place my order.. There is a ton of insight into compositional practice that is widely applicable (to any genre) and elegantly written. Maybe it could be converted to an iPad app? I have no idea how these things work..
Gotta disagree about the piccolo... there are not many instruments I can never imagine writing for (unless paid of course) but piccolo and bagpipes share the lead! ;-) Steve P. On 16 Sep 2011, at 15:37, Chuck Israels wrote: > Dear Steve, > > Thanks for the plug. Gary will soon remove all but some teaser chapters and > examples from his website - because the book has just been released by Hal > Leonard (with the scrolling playback examples on a CD). My editor at HL was > responsive and cooperative (and helpful in the usual ways for which one would > need an editor), so I think the book turned out well. There is no > comprehensive study of orchestration possibilities in the book, and I regret > ignoring the possibilities of the piccolo, since we are discussing octave > transpositions. My old friend and mentor, the late John Garvey, used to say > that much of what is written for flute in jazz bands would sound better on > the piccolo, and he had a good point. In any case, I am glad this work - > encouraged, even insisted upon, by Gary Garritan, as well as invested in by > him (he paid for all the work to make the playback examples sound reasonably > musical and for all the Flash files for the scrolling score examples), is > finally out. The book seems like a perfect fit as an iPad app/eBook, except > that the scrolling scores are done in Adobe Flash, and Apple does not accept > Flash files. That's a disappointment! > > Chuck > > > On Sep 16, 2011, at 4:04 AM, Steve Parker wrote: > >> 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 > > Chuck Israels > 1310 NW Naito Parkway #807 > Portland, OR 97209-316 > > land line: (971) 255-1167 > cell phone: (360) 201-3434 > > <www.chuckisraels.com> > <www.chuckisraelsjazz.com> > > _______________________________________________ > Finale mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
