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Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise : A Translation and Commentary / Berlioz, Edited by Hugh Macdonald.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge books online.
- Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Instrumentation and orchestration.
- Conducting.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (432 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2002.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- The Treatise
- 1 Bowed strings 7
- The violin 7
- The viola 34
- The viola d'amore 42
- The cello 45
- The double bass 54
- 2 Plucked strings 64
- The harp 64
- The guitar 80
- The mandolin 88
- 3 Strings with keyboard 90
- The piano 90
- 4 Wind: Introduction 98
- 5 Wind with reeds 102
- The oboe 102
- The cor anglais 108
- The bassoon 112
- The tenoroon 116
- The contrabassoon 116
- The clarinets 117
- The alto clarinet 131
- The bass clarinet 132
- The basset horn 133
- Improvements in the clarinet family 134
- 6 Wind without reeds 137
- The flute 137
- The piccolo 146
- Other flutes 149
- 7 Wind with keyboard 153
- The organ 153
- 8 Brass with mouthpiece 164
- The horn 164
- The piston or cylinder horn 180
- The trumpet 185
- The cornet 193
- The trombone 208
- The alto valve trombone 228
- The bugle or clarion 229
- The keyed bugle 231
- The piston or cylinder bugle 232
- The bass ophicleide 232
- The alto ophicleide 237
- The contrabass ophicleide 237
- The bombardon in F 238
- The bass tuba 239
- 9 Woodwind with mouthpiece 242
- The serpent 242
- The Russian bassoon 244
- 10 Voices 246
- 11 Pitched percussion 265
- The timpani 265
- Bells 274
- Jeu de timbres 276
- The glockenspiel 276
- The keyboard harmonica 278
- The antique cymbals 278
- 12 Unpitched percussion 280
- The bass drum 280
- Cymbals 283
- The tamtam 286
- The tambourine 286
- The side drum 288
- The tenor drum 289
- The triangle 290
- The Turkish crescent 292
- Other instruments 293
- 13 New instruments 296
- The saxophone 296
- Saxhorns 301
- Saxotrombas 304
- Saxtubas 305
- The concertina 305
- Alexandre's melodium 311
- Alexandre pianos and melodiums (with sustaining device) 314
- The octobass 316
- 14 The orchestra 319
- 15 The conductor and his art 336
- Appendix Berlioz's writing on instruments 366.
- Notes:
- Title from publishers bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Mar 2012).
- Other Format:
- Print version:
- ISBN:
- 9780511481949
- 9780521239530
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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