Music Theory, 3E

Get full access to Music Theory, 3E and 60K+ other titles, with a free 10-day trial of O'Reilly.

There are also live events, courses curated by job role, and more.

BONUSCHAPTER3

Instrument Ranges

When you are composing and arranging for specific instruments, you need to know the range of each instrument, so you don’t write notes that are unplayable. Use the following charts to determine each instrument’s range as it sounds and as it is written.

String Instruments (Bowed)

NOTE

In music notation, 8va indicates the note is played an octave above what is written, and 8vb means the note is played an octave below what is written. If you see a 16va, that means to play the note two octaves above what is written. ...

Get Music Theory, 3E now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.

Start your free trial

Don’t leave empty-handed

Get Mark Richards’s Software Architecture Patterns ebook to better understand how to design components—and how they should interact.

It’s yours, free.

Get it now

Check it out now on O’Reilly

Dive in for free with a 10-day trial of the O’Reilly learning platform—then explore all the other resources our members count on to build skills and solve problems every day.

Start your free trial Become a member now