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Orchestral music, a handbook, David Daniels

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Includes bibliographical references (p. 517-523) and index

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Orchestral music

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David Daniels

a handbook

This guide to orchestral repertoire is a combination of databases by Daniels, a conductor, and the Orchestra Library Information Service. Organized alphabetically by composer, each entry lists title, instrumentation, editor, publisher, significant notes, and includes overtures, symphonies, masses, concertos, and arrangements. Appendices list works, Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: . Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs. 5.5 x 8.5) . Expanded to 6400 entries and almost 900 composers (only 4200 in 3rd Ed.) . Merged with the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS (Orchestra Library Information Service) . Enhanced specific information on woodwind & brass doublings . Lists of required percussion equipment for many works . New, more intuitive format for instrumentation . More contents notes and durations of individual movements . Composers' citizenship, birth and death dates and places, integrated into the listings . Listings of useful websites for orchestra professionals