Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick Mc Kay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on Mc Kay\'s 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of students.
Creative Orchestration contains many fine working examples of music and diagrams explaining technical principles of composition..
His students have won the Grammy, the Pulitzer, Guggenheim Grants and the National Medal of the Arts.
He taught at Washington, USC, Oregon, Michigan and Drake during his years as a professor, and was the teacher of William Bolcom, Earl Robinson, Goddard Lieberson, John Cage and hundreds of other aspiring composition students.
Mc Kay himself had his music presented in the concert halls of America by the master conductors Stokowski, Beecham and Arthur Benjamin during his lifetime, along with hundreds of publications and other honors.
Creative Orchestration by American Composer George Frederick Mc Kay (1899-1970) is highly regarded in academic circles for its direct and uncomplicated approach based on Mc Kay\'s 40 years of teaching music theory at the University of Washington, Seattle while using experiential methods with small groups of students
