Paul Reale: Music 251 A: Bibliography of Orchestration Sources

Books on Instruments:

Baines, Anthony, Brass Instruments, Their History and Development, (1976, Dover).

____________, Woodwind Instruments and Their History, (1967, Dover).

Boehm, Theobald, The Flute and Flute-Playing, (1964, Dover).

Chaloupka, Stanley, Harp Scoring, (1979, Glendale Instant Printing).

Gregory, Robin, The Horn, (1961, Faber and Faber).

Philipp, Lillie, Piano Technique, (1969, Dover).

Pino, David, The Clarinet and Clarinet Playing, (1980, Dover).

Weisberg, Arthur, The Art of Wind Playng, (1993, Accurate Double Reed).

Orchestration:

Adler, Samuel, The Study of Orchestration, (1989, W.W. Norton & Co.).

Blatter, Alfred, Instrumentation/ Orchestration, (1980, Longman).

Carse, Adam, The History of Orchestration, (1964, Dover)

Rinsky-Korsakov, Nikolay, Principles of Orchestration, (1964, Dover).

Acoustics:

Backus, John, The Acoustical Foundations of Music, (1969, W.W. Norton & Co.)

Benade, arthur, Fundamentals of Musical Acoustics, (1976, Dover).

Fletcher and Rossing, The Physics of Musical Instruments, (1998, Springer).

Helmholtz, Hermann, On the Sensations of Tone, (1954, Dover).

Jeans, Sir James, Science & Music, (1968, Dover).

Nederveen, C.J., Acoustical Aspects of Woodwind Instruments, (1998, Northern Illinois University Press).

Winckel, Fritz, Music, Sound and Sensation, (1967, Dover).

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N.B. There is also a series of articles from Scientific American of the last 40 years under the title: The Physics of... The series was reprinted by the magazine in a one-volume form (OP).

E.G. "The Physics of Violins," Scientific American, November, 1962, PP. 79-92.