sandell@ils.nwu.edu (Greg Sandell) (03/07/91)
Hi, I'm writing a Ph.D. dissertation in Music Theory on perception of musical timbre and implications for musical orchestration. For the last few years I have looking at every source on orchestration (treatises, manuals, etc.) and history of orchestration I can get my hands on. I would like to know if anyone knows of any unusual, not run-of-the-mill in-every-library source on orchestration. For example, you may know of some Masters or Ph.D. thesis on the subject that I haven't seen. Or perhaps some monograph on a particular composer devoted a substantial section to his/her orchestration, and I haven't seen it. Or, somebody has dealt with orchestration in a non-traditional way, like a book on MIDI that gives strategies for combining patches to make interesting hyper-sounds. Note: the more practical aspect of orchestration (often called `instrumentation'), that is, simply giving the playing ranges of musical instruments, indicating what trills are impossible, and so on, does not interest me very much. I am interested in orchestration books that actually provide suggestions and strategies for the effective compositional deployment of musical instruments in combination. Thanks in advance, Greg Sandell **************************************************************** * Greg Sandell (sandell@ils.nwu.edu) Evanston, IL USA * * Institute for the Learning Sciences, Northwestern University * ****************************************************************