Category: Music
The orchestra and orchestral music
_How the Orchestra is Constituted_ Page I. Instruments Played with the Bow 3 II. Wind-Instruments of Wood 19 III. Wind-instruments of Brass 30 IV. Other Instruments 37 V. The Orchestral Score 43
Chapters
1. Part I
_How the Orchestra is Constituted_ Page I. Instruments Played with the Bow 3 II. Wind-Instruments of Wood 19 III. Wind-instruments of Brass 30 IV. Other Instruments 37 V. The Or...
2. Part IIVI. General Principles 61 VII. The Strings 66 VIII. The Wood-Wind 81 IX. The Brass and the “Battery” 97 X. Qualities of Good Orchestration 113 XI. Qualities of Orchestral Perfor...
3. Part III4. Part IV5. Part V6. PART IThe modern orchestra is a musical instrument upon which a performer, known as a conductor, plays compositions written especially for it. It is true that an orchestra is a collec...
7. Act III. of “Tannhäuser” may be commended.The brass choir is composed of horns, trumpets, and trombones, with the addition in most modern scores of a contra-bass tuba. Wagner has used also bass trumpets and tenor tubas...
8. PART IIThe orchestra is an instrument, and composers have developed methods of writing for it. The fundamental principles of these methods constitute that branch of musical art called...
9. PART IIIIt is not so easy to define the functions of the conductor of an orchestra as it may seem to be, because at present there is a general tendency to exaggerate one element of his...
10. PART IVThe orchestra of to-day is the outcome of a long series of developments. In a general manner it may be said that the first combinations of instruments were without special purpo...
11. PART VA book on the orchestra might be regarded as complete without this chapter, yet it seems to the author that a few suggestions as to the nature and aims of the different kinds of...