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The Musical Instrument Desk Reference

A Guide to How Band and Orchestral Instruments Work
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 2012

Summary

In The Musical Instrument Desk Reference, Michael Pagliaro, musical instrument authority extraordinaire, provides the one-stop shop for those in need of a quick, visually-rich reference guide to band and orchestral instruments. Descriptions and illustrations of everything from the physics of sound to detailed discussions of each orchestra and band instrument make this work the ideal desktop reference tool for the working musician. Through its Quick Start and In Depth features, readers can quickly decide how deeply they want to delve into the instrument at hand. Following a contemporary format designed to facilitate what any musician or music instructor needs to know, The Musical Instrument Desk Reference eliminates the need to leaf through multiple method books or trawl through websites to find information.

The Musical Instrument Desk Reference includes general information on fingering, the anatomy of musical instruments, sound production, amplification, and control, as well as the science of sound. Readers will find individual chapters on woodwinds, brass instruments, non-fretted string instruments, and percussion instruments. In each category, Pagliaro delves deeper, describing for woodwinds such things as tuning, key systems, fingerings, sound production, tone holes, assembly, materials, embouchures, and reed use; for brass instruments such matters as valve systems, fingering patterns, French horn types, mouthpiece selection, and intonation; for non-fretted string instruments such issues as tuning and fingering, playing position, bowing technique, instrument parts, and materials; and for percussion instruments such elements as instrument types and their classifications, tuning procedures, and accessories.

The Musical Instrument Desk Reference is the perfect guide for anyone interested in or responsible for working with varieties of instruments and their players. Teachers, students, teachers in training, music instructors, instrument technicians, and musicians can quickly locate any specific detail related to any band or orchestral instrument.



Bibliographic data

Copyright year
2012
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8270-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8271-3
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
190
Product type
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Table of contents

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    1. Contents No access
    2. Foreword No access
    3. Preface No access
    4. Acknowledgments No access
  1. Chapter 1. Introduction No access Pages 1 - 8
  2. Chapter 2. Woodwind Instruments No access Pages 9 - 12
  3. Chapter 3. The Flute No access Pages 13 - 26
  4. Chapter 4. The Clarinet No access Pages 27 - 40
  5. Chapter 5. The Saxophone No access Pages 41 - 56
  6. Chapter 6. The Oboe No access Pages 57 - 70
  7. Chapter 7. The Bassoon No access Pages 71 - 84
  8. Chapter 8. Brass Instruments No access Pages 85 - 88
  9. Chapter 9. Brass Instruments: Fingering Charts No access Pages 89 - 112
  10. Chapter 10. Brass Instruments: Expanded In-Depth Study No access Pages 113 - 118
  11. Chapter 11. Brass Instruments: Functioning No access Pages 119 - 128
  12. Chapter 12. Non-fretted String Instruments No access Pages 129 - 140
  13. Chapter 13. Non-fretted String Instruments: Producing Sound No access Pages 141 - 144
  14. Chapter 14. Non-fretted String Instruments: Expanded In-Depth Study No access Pages 145 - 158
  15. Chapter 15. Percussion Instrument Overview No access Pages 159 - 182
  16. Chapter 16. Conclusion No access Pages 183 - 184
  17. Index No access Pages 185 - 188
  18. About the Author No access Pages 189 - 190

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