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David Daniels' Orchestral Music - A Handbook
Now Updated!

OPAS now features the ability to view and download the contents of David Daniels’ invaluable and industry-standard book "Orchestral Music – A Handbook. Fourth Edition "

Repertoire from "Orchestral Music" can - in whole or part - be imported directly into your own copy of OPAS. The collection of over 6,400 works has recently been updated with over 500 changes including.

New (new to the database, and including only the more well-known composers): works by Leroy Anderson, Antheil, Malcolm Arnold, CPE Bach, Nicolas Bacri, Bax, Berlioz, Peter Boyer, Frank Bridge, Britten, Dahl, Diamond, Diemer, Fauré, Flagello, Hanson, Harris, Hindemith, Honegger, Ibert, Mendelssohn, Mozart, Rouse, Shchedrin, Shostakovich, Sierra, Suk, Vaughan Williams, Walton, Zwilich.

Notable series added:

• CANTELOUBE: Chants d'Auvergne (each song individually listed)
• GENESIS SUITE: joint 1944 composition by Schoenberg, Nathaniel Shilkret, Tansman, Milhaud, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Toch, and Stravinsky (recently rediscovered and reconstructed)

There are also new additions by many other less-well-known composers, and numerous corrections and refinements in existing entries.
To see what the Daniels' "Orchestral Music" information looks like in OPAS, click here

View / Print the instructions for importing "Orchestral Music" repertoire into your own copy of OPAS (this link opens a separate Acrobat PDF file)

Contact Fine Arts Software for pricing information and to purchase the "Orchestral Music" database for your copy of OPAS.David Daniels' "Orchestral Music - A Handbook" Fourth Edition is available through the League of American Orchestras , Scarecrow Press and fine booksellers everywhere.