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String Player's Guide to the Orchestra (Score), Orchestral Repertoire, Excerpts, Scales, and Studies for String Orchestra and Individual Study.(Book review)
* String Player's Guide to the Orchestra (Score), Orchestral Repertoire, Excerpts, Scales, and Studies for String Orchestra and Individual Study, arranged by Susan C. Brown. Alfred Publishing Co., Inc., 2008. www.alfred.com; (818) 892-2452; 116 pp.; $19.95.
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In her String Player's Guide to the Orchestra, Susan C. Brown has written not only an excellent work-book style compilation of a wide range of orchestral literature, but also an important and accessible introduction to a tremendously useful general method of practice for all string instruments.
Brown has chosen orchestral excerpts from Bach and Mozart to Ravel and Britten, and she has presented them along with intelligently written scales and studies based on melodic and rhythmic motives drawn from each selection. This method can certainly help the student gain a level of mastery over the literature presented, but, just as importantly, the student can then clearly be shown how to take this general principle of extraction and complication and make it a part of his or her general practice technique, working through ...
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