ABSTRACT
Chapter 12 discusses strategies and techniques for scoring for woodwinds, horns, and strings. The problems explored here require much more taste and imagination and represent the usual situation in practical orchestration: we are given some music to score for an orchestra of a particular size, and we must choose the instruments that seem appropriate to the musical ideas. Topics covered include considerations in scoring music that involves a prominent melodic line against a subordinate background; possibilities in contrasting one section of the orchestra with another; and the effect of doubling various woodwinds with each other or with strings, either in unison or at the octave.
