Orchestration Treatises
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MPCL Bibliographies: Orchestration Treatises
Compiled at the Music Perception and Cognition Laboratory (MPCL) — McGill University.
Updated March 29, 2022.
Adler, S. (2002). The Study of Orchestration (3rd ed.). W. W. Norton and Company.
Belkin, A. (2001). Artistic Orchestration.
Berlioz, H. (1855). Grand traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes[Great treatise on modern instrumentation and orchestration]. Editions Henry Lemoine.
Blatter, A. (1997). Instrumentation and Orchestration (2nd ed.). Schirmer Books.
Brant, H. (2009). Textures and timbres. C. Fischer.
Forsyth, C. (1935). Orchestration. Macmillan and Co.
Kennan, D., & Grantham, D. (2002). The technique of orchestration. Prentice Hall.
Koechlin, C. (1954). Traité de l’orchestration: En quatre volumes (Vol. 1–4). M. Eschig.
Patteson, T. (2016). Instruments for New Music. University of California Press.
Piston, W. (1955). Orchestration. W. W. Norton.
Prout, E. (1899). The Orchestra. Vol. II: Orchestral Combination. Augener.
Read, G. (1953). Thesaurus of orchestral devices. Pitman Publishing Corporation.
Read, G. (1979). Style and Orchestration. Schirmer.
Read, G. (2004). Orchestral Combinations: The Science and Art of Instrumental Tone-Color. The Scarecrow Press, Inc.
Rimsky-Korsakov, N. (1964). Principles of orchestration: With musical examples drawn from his own works (M. Steinberg, Ed.; E. Agate, Trans.). Dover.
Schaeffer, P. (1966). Traité des objets musicaux [Treatise on musical objects]. Editions du Seuil.
Schoenberg, A. (1994). Coherence, counterpoint, instrumentation, instruction in form (S. Neff, Ed.; C. M. Cross, Trans.). University of Nebraska Press.
Sethares, W. A. (1998). Tuning, Timbre, Spectrum, Scale. Springer Verlag.
Sevsay, E. (2013). The Cambridge Guide to Orchestration. Cambridge University Press.
Spitzer, J., & Zaslaw, N. (2004a). Orchestral effects. In The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. OUP Oxford.
Spitzer, J., & Zaslaw, N. (2004b). The Lyre of Orpheus. In The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. Oxford University Press.
Spitzer, J., & Zaslaw, N. (2004c). Theory of Orchestration. In The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. OUP Oxford.