Choral Orchestration

Choral Orchestration by Cecil Forsyth.

"The reader is presented with a complete composition, and is then taken through it bar by bar, almost as if in conversation with a friendly critic. First, the musical difficulties of the work are considered in large blocks, as it were; the orchestral possibilities of each passage are then balanced one against the other; then, when a decision has been made, the details of the orchestral execution are taken up and explained." A link to download printable copies of the original organ/choir score examined in this book and the finished orchestral score is also provided within this kindle edition.