The History of Orchestration

Unabridged and corrected republication of the work first published by Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner and Company, Limited, in 1925.

A survey of concepts of the nature and function of the orchestra from the beginnings of modern music to the end of the nineteenth century.

CONTENIDO:
Introduction
- Orchestral Instruments in the Seventeenth Century
- Sixteenth Century. Early Efforts
- Seventeenth Century. The Initial Period
- Purcell-Scarlatti: the Four-Part String Orchestra
- The Period of Bach and Haendel
- Transition: Gluck
- The Period of Haydn and Mozart
- Orchestral Instruments in the Nineteenth Century
- Nineteenth Century, First Quarter. Beethoven-Schubert-Weber-Rossini
- Nineteenth Century, Second Quarter. Meyerbeer-Berlioz-Mendelssohn-Glinka
- The Period of Wagner
- The Period of Brahms-Tschaikovsky
- Strauss-Debussy-Elgar
Conclusion
Appendix
Index