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Principles of Orchestration

Principles of Orchestration

Steinberg, Maximilian
Agate, Edward
Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay

Paperback

Series: Principles of Orchestration, Book 1

Music CompositionConductingGeneral World History

ISBN10: 172095352X
ISBN13: 9781720953524
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Jun 9 2018
Pages: 166
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.35 Width: 8.50 Depth: 11.02
Language: English
Principles of Orchestration by Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Rimsky-Korsakov had long been engrossed in his treatise on orchestration. We have in our possession a thick note book of some 200 pages in fine hand writing, dating from the years 1873-1874, containing a monograph on the question of acoustics, a classification of wind instruments and a detailed description of the construction and fingering of the different kinds of flute, the oboe, clarinet and horn. In his Memoirs of my musical life (1st edition, p. 120) the following passage occurs: I had planned to devote all my energies to the compilation of a full treatise on orchestration. To this end I made several rough copies, jotting down explanatory notes detailing the technique of different instruments. What I intended to present to the world on this subject, was to include everything. The writing of this treatise, or, to be more exact, the sketch for it took up most of my time in the years 1873 and 1874. After reading the works of Tyndall and Helmholtz, I framed an introduction to my work, in which I endeavoured to expound the laws of acoustics as applied to the principles governing the construction of musical instruments. My manual was to begin with a detailed list of instruments, classified in groups and tabulated, including a description of the various systems in use at the present day.

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