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Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic
repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists
throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed
fourth edition of the printed reference work
Orchestral Music: A Handbook
(2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on
composers and works.
Orchestral Music Online provides:
Access to information on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers
Quick search by composer, title, or keyword
Browsing by composer
Advanced search by duration, instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists
Ability to cut and paste data into rehearsal schedules and other documents to save time and to eliminate transcription errors
Monthly updates with new composers, new works, additional information, and corrections
More than 1,000 changes since publication of the 4th print edition
Links from individual works to music publishers and other sources
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Arias, Ensembles, &
Choruses
An Excerpt Finder for Orchestras
Conductors
John Yaffé and David Daniels have created a one-stop sourcebook for orchestras,
opera companies, conductors, and librarians who research and/or prepare programs
of vocal excerpts—such as solos, ensembles, and choruses—for concert
performance. In this book, readers will find detailed information on a vast
repertoire of vocal pieces commonly extracted from operas, operettas, musicals,
and oratorios—more than 1,750 excerpts from 450 parent works. Modeled on
Daniels' Orchestral Music, the recently released
Arias, Ensembles, & Choruses includes basic historical details about
each parent work as well as extract titles, subtitles, voice types, keys,
durations, locations in the original work (with page numbers in both full scores
and piano-vocal scores), and exact instrumentation. It lists also the publishers
that make available the orchestral materials for
just the excerpt being
programmed,
independent of the full parent work.
Until now,
conductors and orchestra librarians commonly had to first leaf through full
scores, searching for one elusive three-minute aria after another, only to then
consult multiple publishers' catalogues to compile crucial, and often decisive,
information on all the excerpts proposed for a concert or recording. This book
constitutes a single source for finding that information. In many cases, the
individual entries include also valuable insider information on common
performance practice, including start- and stop-points, transpositions, and
conventional cuts. Searching for repertoire is made easy with the detailed title
index and appendixes devoted to ensemble excerpts, all categorized by personnel
(e.g., duets, trios, quartets, quintets, sextets, choruses) and language (Czech,
English, French, German, Italian, Latin, Russian).
This book is
the ideal tool for the working conductor and orchestral librarian, as well as
music program directors at colleges and conservatories, opera companies, and
symphony orchestras. Arias,
Ensembles & Choruses can be ordered from the publisher
here or from Amazon
here.
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