Wednesday, May 28, 2008

The Art of Orchestration

The Art of Orchestration

a Book

By

Dr. Abdelwahab Abdelfattah


ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “The Art of Orchestration” Roza Elyousef Express, El-Kitab El Zahaby , 2001, Code No. 2001/18394, International Code 977-201-056-9

This book was recently published by Roza El-Yousef Express in nine chapters; Cairo 2001; “

The first chapter is an introduction about acoustics; the second categorizes musical instruments

into four groups; the third deals with the family of string musical instruments,

the fourth chapter talks about the harp, and the fifth deals with the theory of wind instruments;

the sixth descries and classifies the four kinds of wood winds; the seventh focuses on

brass instruments and the eight the different types of percussion instruments.

The last chapter is about the vocabulary of music orchestration such as tone color, dynamics

and sound balance in the writing of orchestration booklet.



ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “The Art of Orchestration” Roza Elyousef Express, El-Kitab El Zahaby , 2001, Code No. 2001/18394, International Code 977-201-056-9




ABDELFATTAH, Mohamed Abdelwahab: “The Art of Orchestration” Roza Elyousef Express, El-Kitab El Zahaby , 2001, Code No. 2001/18394, International Code 977-201-056-9

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