5 must-read music books like Creative Orchestration: A Project Method For Classes In Orchestration And Instrumentation by George Frederick McKay

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Creative Orchestration: A Project Method For Classes In Orchestration And Instrumentation

By: George Frederick McKay

4.62

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded i…

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1. Miles: The Autobiography

By: Miles Davis , Quincy Troupe

4.18

Format: 306 pages, Paperback

For more than forty years Miles Davis has been in the front rank of American music. Universally acc… read more

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2. The Study of Orchestration

By: Samuel Adler

3.72

Format: None pages, Hardcover

Through two highly successful editions, The Study of Orchestration has set the standard for orchest… read more

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3. Principles of Orchestration

By: None

4.12

Format: 652 pages, Paperback

"To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught," wrote Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, the great … read more

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4. Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets

By: Nassim Nicholas Taleb

3.67

Format: 363 pages, Paperback

Fooled by Randomness is a standalone book in Nassim Nicholas Taleb's landmark Incerto series, an in… read more

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5. Humankind: A Hopeful History

By: Rutger Bregman

4.32

Format: 462 pages, Hardcover

From the author of Utopia For Realists, a revolutionary argument that the innate goodness and coope… read more

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"We are trained to see selfishness everywhere."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"Toddlers don't need tests or grades to learn to walk or talk."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"[...] het belangrijkste wat ouders hun kinderen kunnen geven: vertrouwen."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

"It's when crisis hits - when the bombs fall or the floodwaters rise - that we humans become our best selves."

-Rutger Bregman, Humankind: A Hopeful History

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6. Hollywood Harmony: Musical Wonder and the Sound of Cinema (Oxford Music/Media Series)

By: Frank Lehman

4.38

Format: 312 pages, Paperback

Film music often tells us how to feel, but it also guides us how to hear. Filmgoing is an intensely… read more

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7. Creative Orchestration: A Project Method For Classes In Orchestration And Instrumentation

By: George Frederick McKay

4.62

Format: 340 pages, Paperback

Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick McKay (1899-1970) is highly regarded i… read more

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8. Analyzing Classical Form: An Approach for the Classroom

By: William Earl Caplin

4.67

Format: 736 pages, Paperback

Analyzing Classical Form builds upon the foundations of the author's critically acclaimed Classical… read more

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But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz

Geoff Dyer

4.24

Transform Your Habits

How Music Works

David Byrne

4.00

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Ted Gioia

4.08

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