| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 388 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Cambridge musical texts and monographs |
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Cambridge musical texts and monographs.
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| Contents |
The Treatise -- Bowed strings -- The violin -- The viola -- The viola d'amore -- The cello -- The double bass -- Plucked strings -- The harp -- The guitar -- The mandolin -- Strings with keyboard -- The piano -- Wind: Introduction -- Wind with reeds -- The oboe -- The cor anglais -- The bassoon -- The tenoroon -- The contrabassoon -- The clarinets -- The alto clarinet -- The bass clarinet -- The basset horn -- Improvements in the clarinet family -- Wind without reeds -- The flute -- The piccolo -- Other flutes -- Wind with keyboard -- The organ -- Brass with mouthpiece -- The horn -- The piston or cylinder horn -- The trumpet -- The cornet -- The trombone -- The alto valve trombone -- The bugle or clarion -- The keyed bugle -- The piston or cylinder bugle -- The bass ophicleide -- The alto ophicleide -- The contrabass ophicleide -- The bombardon in F -- The bass tuba -- Woodwind with mouthpiece -- The serpent -- The Russian bassoon -- Voices -- Pitched percussion -- The timpani -- Bells -- Jeu de timbres -- The glockenspiel -- The keyboard harmonica -- The antique cymbals -- Unpitched percussion -- The bass drum -- Cymbals -- The tamtam -- The tambourine -- The side drum -- The tenor drum -- The triangle -- The Turkish crescent -- Other instruments -- New instruments -- The saxophone -- Saxhorns -- Saxotrombas -- Saxtubas -- The concertina -- Alexandre's melodium -- Alexandre pianos and melodiums (with sustaining device) -- The octobass -- The orchestra -- The conductor and his art |
| Summary |
Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise is a classic textbook which has been used as a guide to orchestration and as a source book for the understanding both of Berlioz's music and of orchestral practice in the 19th century. This is the first new English translation of Berlioz's complete text since 1856, and it is accompanied throughout by Hugh Macdonald's extensive and authoritative commentary on the instruments of Berlioz's time and on his own orchestral practice, as revealed in his scores. It also includes extracts from Berlioz's writings on instruments in his Memoirs and in his many articles for the Parisian press. The Treatise has been highly valued both for its technical information about instruments but also for its poetic and visionary approach to the art of instrumentation. Berlioz was not only one of the great orchestrators of the nineteenth century, he was also the author with the clearest understanding of the art.--Publisher description |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-376) and indexes |
| Notes |
Translated from the French "Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes." |
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Print version record |
| SUBJECT |
Berlioz, Hector 1803-1869 Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes gnd |
| Subject |
Instrumentation and orchestration.
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Conducting.
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MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Composition.
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Conducting
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Instrumentation and orchestration
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-
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| ISBN |
9780511481949 |
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0511481942 |
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0511039506 |
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