To become a good arranger and know how to orchestrate, whether the piece requires 1 or 150 instruments, one must first know on the fingertips - if I dare say - the instruments. Thus, this third volume is a true treatise on instrumentation, which describes with precision the characteristics, possibilities and impossibilities of the most common orchestral instruments.
All the families of instruments are studied: brass, saxophones, wood, strings, keyboards, percussion with keyboards and percussions with determined sounds. Not to mention various instruments such as harp, guitar, bass guitar and accordion. A special study concerns ancient instruments: viola, hurdy-gurdy, catalan oboe, etc. Finally, a final chapter is devoted to synthesizers, samplers and virtual instruments.
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