Orchestral Music

ebook A Handbook

By David Daniels

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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
  • Orchestral Music