Composing for Strings

I was wondering whether someone could suggest:

1. books, manuals etc.

2. online resources

3. literature (i.e. scores & works)

for studying the writing for string orchestras and ensembles, for classical, popular, jazz, Broadway, film music.

I would recomend Walter Piston's Orchestration. In the book, he presents all of the instruments, first 100 pages or so are about strings... There you can find a lot of info about the instruments, ranges, etc. and a few tips what to write to each instrument, so that the musician is able to play it...

Samuel Adler's 'The study of orchestration' is a good book too.

http://forum.youngcomposers.com/tt15/orchestration-introduction-to-strings

:D

More to come.

Wow! :D Thank you, all, very much!

I found this, for example:

http://mediamusicforum.com/composition-strings.html

Thanks Tokke!

Good question Kubla Khan!

-John