{"product":{"product_id":"0486269035","title":"Treatise on Instrumentation (Dover Books On Music: Analysis)","price":"29.95","image_url":"https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51h1iz+U-WL._SL500_.jpg","url":"https://www.amazon.com/dp/0486269035"},"comments":[{"body":"There are multiple books on how to use them. Them and every other instruments. It's called instrumentation or orchestration, a lot of famous composer wrote books about that, from berlioz to koechlin to adler.\r\n\r\ni am currently reading the one by Berlioz : [https://www.amazon.fr/Treatise-Instrumentation-Hector-Berlioz/dp/0486269035/ref=sr\\_1\\_3?\\_\\_mk\\_fr\\_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91\u0026amp;dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=de+l%27instrumentation+berlioz\u0026amp;qid=1610784557\u0026amp;sr=8-3](https://www.amazon.fr/Treatise-Instrumentation-Hector-Berlioz/dp/0486269035/ref=sr_1_3?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91\u0026amp;dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=de+l%27instrumentation+berlioz\u0026amp;qid=1610784557\u0026amp;sr=8-3) (i'm not sure it's exactly this one)\r\n\r\n\u0026amp;#x200B;\r\n\r\nThis one by adler is expensive but it's a bible for orchestrator : [https://www.amazon.fr/Etude-lOrchestration-Adler-Samuel/dp/B0054UKJAM/ref=sr\\_1\\_1?\\_\\_mk\\_fr\\_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91\u0026amp;dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=adler+trait%C3%A9+orchestration\u0026amp;qid=1610784724\u0026amp;sr=8-1](https://www.amazon.fr/Etude-lOrchestration-Adler-Samuel/dp/B0054UKJAM/ref=sr_1_1?__mk_fr_FR=%C3%85M%C3%85%C5%BD%C3%95%C3%91\u0026amp;dchild=1\u0026amp;keywords=adler+trait%C3%A9+orchestration\u0026amp;qid=1610784724\u0026amp;sr=8-1)\r\n\r\n(they are not written specificly for strings, but for every instruments)","subreddit_name":"composer","author":"exaTAYK"},{"body":"Berlioz/Strauss' [Treatise on Instrumentation](https://www.amazon.com/Treatise-Instrumentation-Dover-Books-Music/dp/0486269035/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1481613335\u0026amp;sr=8-1\u0026amp;keywords=treatise+on+instrumentation) is another good one.","subreddit_name":"composer","author":"scatterstars"},{"body":"Berlioz wrote a very famous orchestration book. Richard Strauss loved it and later added his own insights to the text. Dover published them together. Can't deny the writings of two master composers.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.amazon.com/Treatise-Instrumentation-Dover-Books-Music/dp/0486269035/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8\u0026amp;qid=1336434593\u0026amp;sr=8-2","subreddit_name":"classicalmusic","author":"sonoma12"}]}