Choral Orchestration

$6.95

Publication Date: 20th November 2013

This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial.
Forsyth discusses general principles in terms of their application to everyday orchestral necessities. He further presents a complete composition and explores each note, forming a friendly critical conversation with readers. Together the author and reader examine the work's musical difficulties, balance the orche... Read More
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This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial.
Forsyth discusses general principles in terms of their application to everyday orchestral necessities. He further presents a complete composition and explores each note, forming a friendly critical conversation with readers. Together the author and reader examine the work's musical difficulties, balance the orche... Read More
Description
This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial.
Forsyth discusses general principles in terms of their application to everyday orchestral necessities. He further presents a complete composition and explores each note, forming a friendly critical conversation with readers. Together the author and reader examine the work's musical difficulties, balance the orchestral possibilities of each passage, and explore the details of orchestral execution. Pianists and composers as well as organists will appreciate this accessible and complete study of orchestration.
Reprint of the H. W. Gray Co., New York, 1920 edition.
Details
  • Price: $6.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Books On Music: Analysis
  • Publication Date: 20th November 2013
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9780486782584
  • Format: eBook
  • BISACs:
    MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral
    MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Techniques
    MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition
    MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General
Author Bio
English composer and musicologist Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941) studied at Edinburgh University and the Royal Academy of Music and played viola with various London orchestras. He is best known for Orchestration, which is available from Dover.
This volume is geared toward organists seeking a brief, convenient guide to developing technical grounding for the scoring of compositions. Noted musicologist Cecil Forsyth takes readers bar by bar through a complete choral orchestration in this excellent and inexpensive tutorial.
Forsyth discusses general principles in terms of their application to everyday orchestral necessities. He further presents a complete composition and explores each note, forming a friendly critical conversation with readers. Together the author and reader examine the work's musical difficulties, balance the orchestral possibilities of each passage, and explore the details of orchestral execution. Pianists and composers as well as organists will appreciate this accessible and complete study of orchestration.
Reprint of the H. W. Gray Co., New York, 1920 edition.
  • Price: $6.95
  • Pages: 112
  • Publisher: Dover Publications
  • Imprint: Dover Publications
  • Series: Dover Books On Music: Analysis
  • Publication Date: 20th November 2013
  • Trim Size: 6 x 9 in
  • ISBN: 9780486782584
  • Format: eBook
  • BISACs:
    MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Choral
    MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Techniques
    MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition
    MUSIC / Musical Instruments / General
English composer and musicologist Cecil Forsyth (1870–1941) studied at Edinburgh University and the Royal Academy of Music and played viola with various London orchestras. He is best known for Orchestration, which is available from Dover.