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School and Amateur Orchestras

The Commonwealth and International Library: Music Division

  • 1st Edition - January 1, 1966
  • Latest edition
  • Author: John B. Dalby
  • Editor: K. A. Wright
  • Language: English

School and Amateur Orchestras is devoted to a discussion of school and amateur orchestras and consideration of instruments that are normally associated with them. The book opens… Read more

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School and Amateur Orchestras is devoted to a discussion of school and amateur orchestras and consideration of instruments that are normally associated with them. The book opens with a general discussion of students, teachers, music centers, and junior music schools. This is followed by separate chapters on the teaching of string, woodwind and brass, and percussion instruments. Subsequent chapters deal with the planning and direction of orchestras and the selection of instruments and music.

Table of contents


Foreword

Preface


1. Prelude: Aims — Principles — Methods


2. Teaching — The Strings


3. Teaching — Woodwind and Brass


4. Teaching — Percussion Instruments


5. The Orchestra — Its Organization


6. The Orchestra — Its Direction


7. Instruments


8. Music for the Orchestra

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Product details

  • Edition: 1
  • Latest edition
  • Published: January 1, 1966
  • Language: English

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