For comprehensiveness, conciseness, and contemporaneity, The Study of Orchestration remains without peer.
The text has been revised to reflect the most informed reactions to the first and second editions, as well as Professor Adler's revisions. The third edition of this high successful orchestration text follows the approach established in its innovative predecessor: Learning orchestration is best achieved through familiarity with the orchestral literature this familiarity is most effectively accomplished from the music notation in combination with the recorded sound.
