These enhanced CDs contain recordings of all the music excerpts found in the accompanying book, and a CD-ROM program that enables students to access HD-TV quality videos of each instrument and instrumental technique used in the standard orchestra.

The CD-ROM also allows students to test themselves on a number of topics and helps them make more informed orchestrational choices by working through several re-orchestrations of well-known orchestral works by Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Debussy and Mahler.

The re-orchestrational modules challenge students to apply their growing knowledge and individual taste to larger issues of orchestration. The CD-ROM also contains composer biographies that focus on their particular methods of orchestration and that draw examples from their important orchestral works.

Hyperlinked explanatory texts, interactive exercises, glossaries and indexes of composers, terms, instruments and works are also included.