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Orchestral Music Online is the most recent iteration of David Daniels's classic repertoire reference work used by conductors, orchestras, musicians, and musicologists throughout the world. This new online version, based on the critically acclaimed fourth edition of the printed reference work Orchestral Music: A Handbook (2005, Scarecrow Press), provides greater and easier access to more information on composers and works.

Orchestral Music Online provides:

• Access to information on more than 7,000 works by nearly 1,000 composers
• Quick search by composer, title, or keyword
• Browsing by composer
• Advanced search by duration, instrumentation, chorus type, and soloists
• Cut and paste data into rehearsal schedules and other documents to save time and to eliminate transcription errors
• Updated monthly with new composers, new works, additional information, and corrections
• More than 1,000 changes since publication of the 4th print edition
• Links from individual works to music publishers and other sources

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    New Title Forthcoming:     
Arias, Ensembles & Choruses
(An Excerpt-Finder for Orchestras)

David Daniels and John Yaffé are coauthoring a new book intended for conductors and orchestra librarians who need to track down particular vocal extracts for concert use. Here are a few pages from this work-in-progress (View Sample PDF)

Our goal is to include favorite arias, ensembles, and choruses from around 250 operas, operettas, musicals, oratorios and and other extended vocal works. Release date: mid-2011.

In the meantime, we will be eager to receive reactions from anyone who sees these sample pages. We do not intend to list every aria from every opera, but rather the few extracts which are most likely to be chosen for inclusion on an orchestra concert.

Our intention is for the format to be readily intelligible to the knowledgeable user without a great deal of explanation. The instrumentation and most abbreviations are the same as those used on the OrchestralMusic.com website. One new one is the symbol ± [plus or minus] to show voices or instruments that have just a few notes and/or could easily be dispensed with in concert performance.