Rounds off your jazz guitar training and makes you the complete musician.

Mickey Baker explains techniques of composition and orchestration and tells you how to create musical arrangements that work in any idiom, for any combination of instruments.

New, completely revised.

Part I: Polyphonic composition -- The intervals -- The species -- The canon -- Melodic changes of the theme -- Imitation by contrary motion -- The invention -- Three-part polyphony -- Three-part canon -- Fugato -- The stretto -- The three-part invention -- Four-part invention -- The fugue -- The exposition -- The remaining sections -- 2, 3, and 5 voiced fugues -- Conclusion -- Part II: Orchestration -- Instrumentation -- The violin -- The viola -- The cello -- The double bass -- The flute in C -- The flute in G (Alto) -- The piccolo in C -- The oboe (in C) -- The English horn (Cor Anglais) in F -- The clarinet (Bb and A) -- The Eb nclarinet -- The bass clarinet (Bb) -- The bassoon -- Contra-bassoon -- The horn in F (French horn) -- The brass (The Bb trumpet) -- The trombone (Bb) -- The bass trombone -- The tuba -- The harp -- Percussion instrumets with definite pitch -- The kettle drum -- Chimes -- The xylophone -- Key board percussion -- The piano -- The celesta -- Percussion instruments with indefinite pitch -- Side-drum -- Bass drum -- Triangle -- Cymbals -- Gong -- Tambourine -- Part III: Voicing -- Part writing -- Duet writing -- Trio writing -- 4-part writing -- Double stops on the violin, viola and cello -- Three and four note chords -- Part IV: The string orchestra -- The non-harmonic elements -- arpeggio and pedal treatment -- Bowings -- Exact tremolo -- The fingered (slurred) tremolo -- Pizzicato -- Other devices in use for strings -- Part V: Wood-winds and horns -- Combination of trumpet, trombone and horns -- Part VI: Full ensemble -- Suggestions for scoring -- Melodic lines -- Treatment of a principal melodic line -- Combination of wood-winds and horns -- Wood-winds, horns and strings -- Part VII: Big band arranging -- The saxophones -- Open voicing -- Five saxophones -- Saxophone trills -- The brass -- The rhythm section -- Ensemble with concerted rhythm -- Odd combinations -- Free jazz -- Contrapuntal treatment -- Part VIII: The strings with big bands -- Strings as solo, soli (melody or counter melody) -- Strings and saxophones, clarinets, flutes, etc. -- Effects -- Part IX: Symphonic effects in modern arranging -- Part X: Choral arranging -- Voice leading -- TBB combination -- TB combination -- Female voices (treble voices) -- SSA combination.