Berlioz's orchestration treatise : a translation and commentary /

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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 tex...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Berlioz, Hector, 1803-1869
Other Authors: Macdonald, Hugh, 1940-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Francés
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, ©2002.
Series:Cambridge musical texts and monographs.
Subjects:
Berlioz, Hector > 1803-1869 > Grand traité d'instrumentation et d'orchestration modernes
Instrumentation and orchestration.
Conducting.
Instrumentation et orchestration.
Direction musicale.
MUSIC > Instruction & Study > Composition.
Conducting
Instrumentation and orchestration
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of 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.

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