Overview

In Orchestral ""Pops"" Music: A Handbook, Lucy Manning provides a comprehensive and informative repertoire list for orchestral ""pops"" concerts. Like David Daniels' Orchestral Music: A Handbook, this volume, for which Daniels bestows a foreword, alleviates the time-consuming work related to programming a successful ""pops"" concert. Lucy Manning has collected over 2000 entries, representing the work of more than 650 composers. Each entry, presented alphabetically by composer, supplies detailed information about the work, including composer name and birth/death dates; the duration, instrumentation, and vocal needs for the piece; the publisher; and thematic suggestions. Other information, such as which songs are included in a medley and the person to whom a piece is dedicated, are noted when available. Four appendixes follow the main text, allowing for easy cross-referencing and accessibility. The appendixes organize the material by title, instrumentation, duration, and themes like Americana, Black History Month, Films, Holidays, Seasons, and TV. A final appendix provides the contact information for publishers and other sources. Perfect for conductors of all types of orchestras, this valuable resource is ideal for orchestral librarians, music directors, educators, and programmers searching for particular repertoire, programming ideas for ""pops"" concerts, or publishers for ordering music.

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At long last, there has been published a reference book to help conductors, orchestra librarians, and administrators sort through the potpourri of orchestral pops arrangements. As classical lite increasingly supplements orchestral programming, the Manning Orchestral Pops Music: A Handbook, is a natural companion to the David Daniels Orchestral Music: A Handbook (Fourth Edition), whose style and format it follows. The book draws together valuable information for each title, such as composer, arranger, duration, instrumentation, and publisher. Like the Daniels, it also provides assistance with programming, with its appendices that list titles by various categories, including themes from Americana to Weather. This book will save countless hours of research it is well worth the investment. We have been waiting for such a volume for years, and I highly recommend it.--Clinton F. Nieweg

This work is extremely valuable for its listing of pops music by theme. Pops orchestra conductors and music programmers should find it useful to be able to find listings by such themes as space, seasons, and travel...This work is highly recommended for all orchestra libraries, larger public and academic libraries, and the libraries of professionals concerned with orchestral programming. Arba, May 2009 As a reference tool providing basic performance information on specific works, this book is quite useful... Orchestral 'Pops' Music: A Handbook is a quality reference work that adds to the existing repertoire guides to orchestral literature. Notes, September 2009 Many bibliographies of orchestral music contain lists of pops music, but few provide as complete a list (over 2,000) as is found in this handbook. American Reference Books Annual At long last, there has been published a reference book to help conductors, orchestra librarians, and administrators sort through the potpourri of orchestral pops arrangements. As classical lite increasingly supplements orchestral programming, the Manning Orchestral Pops Music: A Handbook, is a natural companion to the David Daniels Orchestral Music: A Handbook (Fourth Edition), whose style and format it follows. The book draws together valuable information for each title, such as composer, arranger, duration, instrumentation, and publisher. Like the Daniels, it also provides assistance with programming, with its appendices that list titles by various categories, including themes from Americana to Weather. This book will save countless hours of research--it is well worth the investment. We have been waiting for such a volume for years, and I highly recommend it. -- Clinton F. Nieweg

Author Information

Lucy Manning is Orchestra Director and Assistant Professor of Music at Old Dominion University.

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