Bryan Fusilier

Since it is going to take me some time to get to this section of the website, and since learning orchestration is a long term commitment, I’m going to start out by recommending some reading. One of the greatest Orchestration books that ever was written is by Rimsky-Korsakov and is available in its entirety online courtesy of Northern Sounds. There are many great books out there on orchestrating and this one is at the top of the list IMO. No matter what you’re level of experience in orchestrating, there is much to learn here.

My favorite thing about this online version, is that the musical and score examples are all playable, so you can hear and see exactly how the principles being discussed sound in the real world. There is so much good information here that you will be able to spend months going through and digesting everything this book has to offer. There isn’t a better, more thourough introduction to Orchestrating, that I’m aware of. So while I’m fleshing out the rest of this site and stalling on adding posts to this section, I’ll let one of the masters take over for a while. He’s going to do a much better job than I would have anyhow.

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Garritan Libraries-Principles of Orchestration On-line – northernsounds.com.