Orchestral Music: A Handbook
Also Available: Orchestral Music Online This fourth edition of the highly acclaimed, classic sourcebook for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals has been expanded and revised to feature 42% more compositions over the third edition, with clearer entries and a more useful system of appendixes. Compositions cover the standard repertoire for American orchestra. Features from the previous edition that have changed and new additions include: · Larger physical format (8.5 x 11 vs....
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Familiar to conductors, orchestra managers, and music librarians, this classic sourcebook of information necessary to plan orchestral programs and organize rehearsals has been greatly expanded and revised. The fourth edition features nearly 6400 compositions that cover the standard repertoire for American orchestras (a 42% increase over the third edition), clearer entries, and a more useful system of appendixes. Included for the first time are entries from the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS repertoire database. Choice ...instrumentation, duration, and source of performance material are so clearly given....
Part 1 Preface Part 2 Abbreviations Part 3 ALPHABETICAL LISTING BY COMPOSER Part 4 APPENDICES Chapter 5 A. Chorus Chapter 6 B. Solo Voices (including speaker or narrator) Chapter 7 C. Solo Instruments Chapter 8 D. Orchestral Works Listed by Instrumentation Chapter 9 E. Orchestral Works Listed by Duration Chapter 10 F. Works Intended for Youth Concerts Chapter 11 G. Significant Anniversaries of Composers Chapter 12 H. Composer Groups for Thematic Programming Chapter 13 I. Resources Chapter 14 a. Books Chapter 15 b. Institutions and Organizations Chapter 16 c. Online Chapter 17 J. Title Index Chapter 18 K. Publishers Part 19 About the Author
\ American Reference Books Annual...a useful printed source...\ \ \ \ \ International MusicianFamiliar to conductors, orchestra managers, and music librarians, this classic sourcebook of information necessary to plan orchestral programs and organize rehearsals has been greatly expanded and revised. The fourth edition features nearly 6,400 compositions that cover the standard repertoire for American orchestras, clearer entries, and a more useful system of appendixes. Included for the first time are entries from the American Symphony Orchestra League's OLIS repertoire database.\ \ \ Notes: Quarterly Journal Of Music Libr Assoc...should be indispensable to anyone involved with the performance or programming of orchestral music, including program annotators, orchestra managers, librarians, arts administrators, conductors, musicians, broadcasters, discographers, and choral groups.\ \ \ \ \ Fontes Artis MusicaeFor those looking to expand a group's repertoire in need of a piece to fit a precise slot on a program, Daniels' handbook can be a godsend. Following the main body of the volume is a series of indices that enable a user to locate works by such criteria as choral forces, solo voices, solo instruments, specific instrumentations, duration, a composer's nationality, suitability for children's concerts, and even composer anniversaries through 2016....Daniels has wisely anticipated the needs of his readers. The index by duration is subdivided by composer nationality and birth date, making it possible, for example, to find a ten-minute work by an eighteenth century French composer very quickly. With its ties to OPAS and OLIS, major professional orchestras will probably opt to use Daniels' work through its electronic options. For more modest ensembles and student groups who want to avoid annual subscription fees, this volume should be an indispensable item, and novice orchestral librarians will especially benefit from Daniel's frequent personal comments on everything from a piece's origins to the reliability of particular editions and even to issues of performance practice. Such idiosyncrasies bring the experience of several veteran orchestral librarians to the next generation and make Daniels' handbook much more than just a useful reference work.\ — 2008, Vol. 54/4\ \ \ \ \ Reference and Research Book NewsThis guide to orchestral repertoire is a combination of databases by Daniels, a conductor, and the Orchestra Library Information Service. Organized alphabetically by composer, each entry lists title, instrumentation, editor, publisher, significant notes, and includes overtures, symphonies, masses, concertos, and arrangements. Appendixes list works by chorus, solo voice, solo instrument, instrumentation, duration, works for youth orchestras, anniversaries of composers, and composer groups for thematic programs. The reference contains a title index and list of publishers and sources, and the new edition has more details, such as doublings, equipment, composers' dates, and birth and death places.\ \ \ \ \ Notes: Quarterly Journal of Music Library Association...should be indispensable to anyone involved with the performance or programming of orchestral music, including program annotators, orchestra managers, librarians, arts administrators, conductors, musicians, broadcasters, discographers, and choral groups.\ \ \ \ \ American Reference Books Annual (ARBA)...a useful printed source...\ \ \ \ \ Choice...instrumentation, duration, and source of performance material are so clearly given....\ \ \ \ \ BooknewsProvides information for planning orchestral programs and organizing rehearsals, with material on instrumentation, duration, and source of performance materials. This third edition features 35% more entries on works representing the standard repertoire for American orchestras, arranged alphabetically by composer, plus many appendices on areas such as solo voices and instruments, anniversaries of composers, composer groups for thematic programming, and useful organizations. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.\ \ \ \ \ Choice...instrumentation, duration, and source of performance material are so clearly given...\ \ \ \ \ Editor's Bookshelf...an update to what many conductors consider an indispensable tool, this latest edition of Guild member Daniels' book adds even more composers to the previous version...\ \ \ \ \ BooklistHigh school and college orchestra conductors as well as others entrusted with planning orchestral programs will find this handbook very stimulating.\ \ \ \ \ SymphonyNOWOrganized by composer, this catalogue specifies instrumentation, duration, and source performance materials for more than 4,000 orchestral works — an increase of about thirty-five percent over the previous work.\ \ \ \ \ Notes...[a] valuable reference work...a noteworthy effort...should be indispensable to anyone involved with the performance or programming of orchestral music...\ \ \ \ \ CHOICE...instrumentation, duration, and source of performance material are so clearly given...\ \
