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Philip J. Lang, Jonathan Tunick, etc. are names well known to musical theatre fans, but few people understand precisely what the orchestrator does. This is the first book ever written about these unsung stars of the Broadway musical whose work is so vital to each show's success. The book examines the careers of Broadway's major orchestrators and follows the song as it travels from the composer's piano to the orchestra pit.

Instrumentation and orchestration --- Orchestrators. --- Musicals --- Orchestration --- Composition (Music) --- Arrangement (Music) --- Orchestraters --- Composers --- Arrangers (Musicians) --- History. --- History and criticism.

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Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise is a classic textbook which has been used as a guide to orchestration and as a source book for the understanding both of Berlioz's music and of orchestral practice in the nineteenth century. This was the first English translation of Berlioz's complete text since 1856, and it is accompanied throughout by Hugh Macdonald's extensive and authoritative commentary on the instruments of Berlioz's time and on his own orchestral practice, as revealed in his scores. It also includes extracts from Berlioz's writings on instruments in his Memoirs and in his many articles for the Parisian press. The Treatise has been highly valued both for its technical information about instruments but also for its poetic and visionary approach to the art of instrumentation. Berlioz was not only one of the great orchestrators of the nineteenth century, he was also the author with the clearest understanding of the art.

78.21.1 Berlioz --- 78.65 --- Instrumentation and orchestration. --- Conducting. --- Orchestration --- Composition (Music) --- Arrangement (Music) --- Band conducting --- Conducting (Music) --- Music conducting --- Orchestra conducting --- Music --- Performance --- instrumentatie --- methoden (muziek) --- orkestratie --- anno 1800-1899 --- France

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This is a comprehensive and practical instructional book and reference guide on the art and craft of jazz composition and arranging for small and large ensembles. In this book, veteran composers and arrangers Richard Sussman and Michael Abene combine their extensive years of experience as musicians and instructors to demonstrate how advances in music technology and software may be integrated with traditional compositional concepts to form a new and more efficient paradigm for the creative process. This book builds on material and issues treated in traditional jazz composition and arranging courses, including all the fundamental musical techniques and information associated with jazz arranging and composition instruction. In addition, each chapter of the book also contains specific examples demonstrating the effective utilization of music software as applied to the realization of these techniques. Software is employed both as both a learning tool in the form of examples and exercises, and as a practical tool illustrating how many modern day composer/arrangers are utilizing these techniques successfully in the real world. The book also offers several chapters devoted exclusively to the creative use of music technology and software.

Composition (Music) --- Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) --- Jazz --- Musical notation --- Arrangement (Music) --- Adaptation (Music) --- Arranging (Music) --- Musical arranging --- Musical transcription --- Transcription (Music) --- Instrumentation and orchestration --- Ligatures (Music) --- Music --- Music autography --- Music copying --- Music manuscript --- Music notation --- Musical autography --- Notation, Musical --- Staff notation --- Musical meter and rhythm --- Signs and symbols --- Paleography, Musical --- Band arranging --- Band music arranging --- Orchestration (Band) --- Composing (Music) --- Music composing --- Music composition --- Musical composition --- Concertante style --- Instruction and study. --- Computer programs. --- Composition

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Behind the iconic jazz orchestras, vocalists, and stage productions of the Swing Era lay the talents of popular music (TM)s unsung heroes: the arrangers. John Wriggle takes you behind the scenes of New York City's vibrant entertainment industry of the 1930s and 1940s to uncover the lives and work of jazz arrangers, both black and white, who left an indelible mark on American music and culture. 'Blue Rhythm Fantasy' traces the extraordinary career of arranger Chappie Willet - a collaborator of Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Gene Krupa, and many others - to revisit legendary Swing Era venues and performers from Harlem to Times Square.

Arrangement (Music) --- Jazz --- Big band music --- Adaptation (Music) --- Arranging (Music) --- Musical arranging --- Musical transcription --- Transcription (Music) --- Instrumentation and orchestration --- Instrumentation and orchestration (Band) --- Accordion and piano music (Jazz) --- Clarinet and piano music (Jazz) --- Cornet and piano music (Jazz) --- Double bass and piano music (Jazz) --- Jazz duets --- Jazz ensembles --- Jazz music --- Jazz nonets --- Jazz octets --- Jazz quartets --- Jazz quintets --- Jazz septets --- Jazz sextets --- Jazz trios --- Jive (Music) --- Saxophone and piano music (Jazz) --- Vibraphone and piano music (Jazz) --- Wind instrument and piano music (Jazz) --- Xylophone and piano music (Jazz) --- African Americans --- Music --- Third stream (Music) --- Washboard band music --- History --- History and criticism.

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Abramo Basevi published his study of Verdi's operas in Florence in 1859, in the middle of the composer's career. The first thorough, systematic examination of Verdi's operas, it covered the twenty works produced between 1842 and 1857-from Nabucco and Macbeth to Il trovatore, La traviata, and Aroldo. But while Basevi's work is still widely cited and discussed-and nowhere more so than in the English-speaking world-no translation of the entire volume has previously been available. The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi fills this gap, at the same time providing an invaluable critical apparatus and commentary on Basevi's work. As a contemporary of Verdi and a trained musician, erudite scholar, and critic conversant with current and past operatic repertories, Basevi presented pointed discussion of the operas and their historical context, offering today's readers a unique window into many aspects of operatic culture, and culture in general, in Verdi's Italy. He wrote with precision on formal aspects, use of melody and orchestration, and other compositional features, which made his study an acknowledged model for the growing field of music criticism. Carefully annotated and with an engaging introduction and detailed glossary by editor Stefano Castelvecchi, this translation illuminates Basevi's musical and historical references as well as aspects of his language that remain difficult to grasp even for Italian readers. Making Basevi's important contribution to our understanding of Verdi and his operas available to a broad audience for the first time, The Operas of Giuseppe Verdi will delight scholars and opera enthusiasts alike.

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