by Sibelius Software Ltd.
Platform:
Windows, Mac
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Sibelius Instruments is a complete encyclopedia of orchestral and band instruments. It includes high-quality audio recordings of each instrument including different playing styles (e.g. trumpets with different mutes). Instruments also contains an interactive guide to ensembles and in-depth information on how to notate for each instrument.
Features:
- Over 50 instruments, from alto clarinet to xylophone
- Over 20 types of bands, orchestras, and ensembles, from string quartet to marching band
- Instrumental writing and playing techniques such as range, bowing, mutes, glissandi, harmonics, mallets, and multiphonics
- Lesson plans, student assignments, and recommended listening
- Quiz with 500 listening and general questions
Sibelius Instruments is the unique interactive encyclopedia of instruments, bands, orchestras and ensembles. It includes complete information on every orchestral and band instrument, with full details of their characteristics, how to write for them, and hundreds of high-quality recordings. "Sibelius Instruments is a wonderful interactive guide suitable for beginners, students or experienced composers ... The layout and presentation is admirably clear and a pleasure for amateurs and professionals alike": Julian Anderson, Head of Composition at the Royal College of Music. Sibelius Instruments also explains all about different orchestras, bands, and ensembles, including their historical development and repertoire. With an extensive quiz to test what you've learned, Sibelius Instruments is ideal for schools, colleges, universities, teachers, students, composers & arrangers.