A Contemporary Approach to Music Instrumentation

Abstract

: In Romanian higher music education, the disciplines of Music Instrumentation and Orchestration are based on an extremely small number of treatises in the Romanian language. They cover the description and analysis of the musical instruments used in the symphony orchestra, but references to modern musical instruments are brief or even lacking, either because of the age of these treatises or because jazz / pop / rock genres were not studied in formal music education before 1994. Moreover, in the musicological approaches references was made rather to the modern instruments used experimentally in classical music. This study primarily analyzes the modern musical instruments widely used in the jazz / pop / rock genres, highlighting their new ways of producing sound. The association with the mechanical means of the traditional instruments leads to a new approach to the classification of musical instruments, based on new criteria, including that of existing treaties, but becoming much broader.