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Showing 1 to 4 of 4 for “"orchestral instruments"”.
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Jean-Georges Kastner's Traité general d'instrumentation: A Translation and Commentary
… and concise treatise discusses the standard orchestral instruments and several obscure and ancient instruments. Intended principally for young composers, it provides the most detailed descriptions of the standard wind instruments of his day and discusses recent developments like the …
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A New Space (new) for Mixed Jazz Chamber Ensemble
A New Space (new) is scored for a mix of chamber orchestral instruments and jazz instruments, and unfolds in three movements. They progress from a celebration of intentionality and traditional composition in the first, to an exploration of a rigorous improvisation through conducted gestures in the …
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The Piano as an Orchestra: The Accompanist and the Twentieth-Century Orchestral Reduction
… an orchestra diminishes, piano reductions of an orchestral score are becoming the most frequent vehicle for concerto performances of twentieth and twenty-first century instrumental literature. While the current state of research provides solid support to many accompanists, it is in the area of …
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The manufacture of tuned percussion instruments in Indonesia and Africa: a selective study
… the manufacture of Javanese gamelan percussion instruments, the second examines the manufacture of xylophones in Central African Republic, Ghana and Zambia, and the third examines the acoustics of xylophones. Part I: Gamelan is a generic term for a set of instruments consisting primarily of …