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Name: Scoring Music: Writing for Specific Instruments
ID: m12746
Language: English (en)
Summary: Here are some basic guidelines for musicians who would like to try writing or rewriting a piece of music for a particular set of instruments.
Subject: Arts
Keywords: arranging, instrumentation, instruments, music, orchestration, scoring
Document Type: -//CNX//DTD CNXML 0.5//EN
License: Creative Commons Attribution License CC-BY 2.0
Authors: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Copyright Holders: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Maintainers: Catherine Schmidt-Jones (caschmidtjones@gmail.com)
Latest version: 1.1 (history)
First publication date: Feb 11, 2005 10:16 am -0600
Last revision to module: Apr 8, 2005 2:00 pm -0500

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Version: 1.1 Apr 8, 2005 2:00 pm -0500 by Catherine Schmidt-Jones
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