Instrumentation and Orchestration
- ISBN-10
- 0534251870
- ISBN-13
- 9780534251871
- Category
- Arrangement (Music)
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1997
- Publisher
- Cengage Learning
- Author
- Alfred Blatter
Description
The second edition features a new discussion of the bugle, information on percussion instruments of American and African origin, an extensively rewritten section on the organ, and the addition of Spanish terms to the existing English, French, German, and Italian. Appendixes on MIDI, guitar fingering, and guitar chords are new to the second edition, and the material on electronic instruments and electronic sound modification has been revised and expanded. The revision also includes nearly 100 new musical examples.
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