| Description |
1 online resource (xxxix, 388 pages) : illustrations. |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Cambridge musical texts and monographs
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Cambridge musical texts and monographs.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-376) and indexes. |
| 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. |
| Contents |
Treatise -- Bowed strings -- Violin -- Viola -- Viola d'amore -- Cello -- Double bass -- Plucked strings -- Harp -- Guitar -- Mandolin -- Strings with keyboard -- Piano -- Wind: Introduction -- Wind with reeds -- Oboe -- Cor anglais -- Bassoon -- Tenoroon -- Contrabassoon -- Clarinets -- Alto clarinet -- Bass clarinet -- Basset horn -- Improvements in the clarinet family -- Wind without reeds -- Flute -- Piccolo -- Other flutes -- Wind with keyboard -- Organ -- Brass with mouthpiece -- Horn -- Piston or cylinder horn -- Trumpet -- Cornet -- Trombone -- Alto valve trombone -- Bugle or clarion -- Keyed bugle -- Piston or cylinder bugle -- Bass ophicleide -- Alto ophicleide -- Contrabass ophicleide -- Bombardon in F -- Bass tuba -- Woodwind with mouthpiece -- Serpent -- Russian bassoon -- Voices -- Pitched percussion -- Timpani -- Bells -- Jeu de timbres -- Glockenspiel -- Keyboard harmonica -- Antique cymbals -- Unpitched percussion -- Bass drum -- Cymbals -- Tamtam -- Tambourine -- Side drum -- Tenor drum -- Triangle -- Turkish crescent -- Other instruments -- New instruments -- Saxophone -- Saxhorns -- Saxotrombas -- Saxtubas -- Concertina -- Alexandre's melodium -- Alexandre pianos and melodiums (with sustaining device) -- Octobass -- Orchestra -- Conductor and his art. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Language |
Translated from the French "Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes." |
| Subject |
Instrumentation and orchestration.
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Instrumentation and orchestration. |
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Conducting.
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Conducting. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-
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| Added Title |
Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes. English https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n91059535
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869. Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes. English. Berlioz's orchestration treatise. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2002 0521239532 (DLC) 2001052619 (OCoLC)48241367 |
| ISBN |
9780511481949 (electronic book) |
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0511481942 (electronic book) |
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0511039506 (electronic book) |
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9780511039508 (electronic book) |
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0511037090 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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9780511037092 (electronic book ; Adobe Reader) |
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0511052332 |
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9780511052330 |
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1280416513 |
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9781280416514 |
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0521239532 |
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9780521239530 |
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