Alto Flute: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Alto Saxophone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Baritone Saxophone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Bass Clarinet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Bassoon: Fingering Charts — WFG
“This fingering chart includes both basic fingerings and alternatives that are more appropriate in some passages. Some alternate fingerings are designed for fast passages, while others modify the tone, color, or pitch at normal and extreme dynamic levels. The fingerings apply to Heckel-system (German) bassoons. There is a separate alternate fingering chart for Heckel-system contrabassoon.”
Bassoon: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Bassoon: Multiphonics for Modern Bassoon — Leslie Ross
“With several recordings of each multiphonic and using a couple of different reeds, an attempt was made to note some of the most prominent repeatable frequencies present in these tones. They are much more complex and variable than what is transcribed here and it is precisely their richness and complexity that is what is most appealing about them.”
Bassoon: Playing Techniques — MVSH Band Program
Student Instrument Guide and Technique Assignment for the bassoon.
Bassoon: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Bass Trombone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Celesta: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Cello: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Cello: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Clarinet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Clarinet: Playing Techniques — VSL
“Despite its complicated keywork the clarinet is extremely agile and allows great dexterity. Its agility is exceeded only by the flute, which is due to the clarinet’s particularly difficult fingering. Legatos played on the clarinet have an especially velvety sound which makes it the perfect instrument for the performance of trills and tremolos, arpeggios, scales and legato phrases.”
Clarinet: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Contra-alto Clarinet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Contrabass: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Contrabassoon: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Contrabassoon: Playing Techniques — VSL
“The contrabassoon is ideally suited to solemn passages because the full sound is slow to develop. On the other hand it exhibits surprising agility in staccato sequences, and is certainly more agile in the low register than the other bass (and contrabass) instruments.”
Drums: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Eb Clarinet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Electronics: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
English horn: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
English horn: Playing Techniques — Vienna Symphonic Library
“In general, the same playing techniques are possible on the English horn as on the oboe. Owing to its voice-like sound it was used mainly for the performance of cantilenas, especially in the Romantic orchestra, but nowadays all the most common playing techniques of the oboe are also required of the English horn.”
Euphonium: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Flugelhorn: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Flute: Fingering Charts — WFG
“[A] list of all available fingering charts for Boehm-system flutes, which are the modern, most common type used today in bands and orchestras.”
Flute: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Flute: Playing Techniques — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The flute is an extremely agile instrument which allows staccato and legato playing at the fastest tempi. It is also ideally suited for fast arpeggios as well as chromatic and diatonic scales, leaps, tremolos and trills. The changeover from staccato to legato notes is especially characteristic of the flute.”
Flute: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Fretted Strings: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Guitar: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Harp: Harp Tips Blog — Danielle Kuntz
“This blog includes tips and mini tutorials on writing for the harp. Use the search feature below to find specific topics.”
Harp: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Harp: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Horn: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Horn: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Keyboard: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Keyboard Percussion: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Metals: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Oboe: 21st Century Oboe — Christopher Redgate
“On this site you will find information about the oboist Christopher Redgate, about many aspects of performing and composing for the oboe today and about the Howarth-Redgate oboe.”
Oboe: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Oboe: Playing Techniques — Vienna Symphonic Library
“The oboe is an agile instrument (although by no means as agile as the flute) and can in principle play trills, arpeggios etc. But due to its sound characteristics and pitch it was used more as a melodic instrument in the past.”
Oboe: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Percussion: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Piano: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Piccolo: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Piccolo Trumpet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Saxophone: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Soprano Saxophone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Tenor Saxophone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Tenor Trombone: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Timpani: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Trombone: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Trumpet: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Trumpet: The Orchestra: A User's Manua — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Tuba: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Tuba: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Viola: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Viola: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Violin: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Violin: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Voices: The Orchestra: A User's Manual — Andrew Hugill
“The aim of The Orchestra: A User's Manual is to provide information about the orchestra, orchestration, composition and instruments, for the benefit of anybody with an interest in the subject.”
Wooden Percussion Instruments: Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears — Jacobs School of Music
Instrument Studies for Eyes and Ears, by Don Freund, site designed by Reid Merzbacher
Harp: @harpistkt — Kristan Toczko
Canadian harpist with a vast amount of videos showing different styles and approaches to the harp.