The Professional Arranger Composer

The Professional Arranger Composer
Author: Russell Garcia
Publisher: Alfred Music Publishing
Total Pages: 176
Release: 1954
Genre: Arrangement (Music)
ISBN:

Designed for the musician who wants to become a professional arranger-composer. Includes a section of dance band harmony and voicing.

The Art of Writing Music

The Art of Writing Music
Author: John Cacavas
Publisher: Alfred Music
Total Pages: 200
Release:
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781457438967

John Cacavas has written an extensive book on the techniques of composing, orchestrating and arranging. Includes chapters on each section of the band and orchestra, voicing techniques as well as special chapters on concert band writing, choral writing, electronic applications and writing for film and television.

Instrumental Jazz Arranging

Instrumental Jazz Arranging
Author: Mike Tomaro
Publisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 532
Release: 2009
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9781423452744

(Instructional). Instrumental Jazz Arranging consists of a systematic presentation of the essential techniques and materials of jazz arranging. Authors Mike Tomaro and John Wilson draw upon 50+ years of combined teaching experience to bring you a book that addresses all of the basic needs for beginning arrangers. Topics include counterpoint/linear writing, jazz harmony, compositional techniques, and orchestration. All topics serve to address issues concerned with true arranging in great detail. The book may be used in both individual and classroom instructional situations. The accompanying CDs 170 tracks in all! include many of the examples in the book, plus templates for assignments formatted for Finale .

Orchestration Theory

Orchestration Theory
Author: James E. Perone
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 200
Release: 1996-04-30
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0313387893

Presenting detailed bibliographic information on all aspects of orchestration, instrumentation, and musical arranging with the broadest possible historical and stylistic palette, this work includes over 1,200 citations. The sources range from treatises, dissertations, and textbooks to journal articles and are cross-referenced and indexed. This is the only comprehensive bibliographic reference guide of its kind on the subject of orchestration. It will be of value to the music theory teacher, undergraduate and graduate students of orchestration, and the researcher. The book contains chapters devoted to book-length treatises; a general bibliography of journal articles and books partially related to orchestration; a chronological list of orchestration treatises; a list of jazz-arranging treatises; a list of band-related treatises; a list of treatises dealing with specific instruments or instrumental families; and an index. This is the first in a series of music theory reference books the author is developing.