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Originally Posted by Chris
I looking into getting a theory book on Orchestration.
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Highly recommend the
Kennan "Technique of Orchestration." The
Rimsky-Korsakov is also good.
However imho nothing can substitute for playing in an orchestra...
The one fault of nearly all orchestration books I've read is that they are all horrible and unintuitive when it comes to explaining how string crossings and arpeggio/multiple-stop figures can be easy, workable, or impossible. For that, talk to a string player
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I tried this with some John Williams scores I found online, and it was quite helpful, although difficult to take in all at once.
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His scores are crazy, there's so much going on at once. I tried listening repeatedly until I knew the piece by ear. Then listened through one time for each family (strings, wind, brass) while following that family in the score. Then I got a better appreciation.