Music Arranging Books

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There are many other well-known books that should be on

everymusician's bookshelf. My favorites include these:

Arranging Concepts Complete (Dick Grove, Alfred Publishing, 1989)

Contemporary Choral Arranging (Arthur E. Ostrander and Dana


Wilson,Prentice Hall, 1986)

Principles of Orchestration (Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov, Dover


Publications, 1964)

Sounds and Scores: A Practical Guide to Professional Orchestration


(Henry Mancini, Warner Brothers Publications, 1973)

The Study of Orchestration, Third Edition (Samuel Adler, WW. Norton


& Company, 2002)

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Theory, Second Edition


(Michael Miller, Alpha Books, 2005), the perfect introduction to the
music theory you need to arrange and orchestrate your own music

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Music Composition (Michael Miller,


Alpha Books, 2005), which teaches the compositional skills
necessary to create fully formed arrangements

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