The Orchestra and Orchestral Music
Title | The Orchestra and Orchestral Music PDF eBook |
Author | William James Henderson |
Publisher | |
Pages | 286 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Musical instruments |
ISBN |
A Guide to Orchestral Music
Title | A Guide to Orchestral Music PDF eBook |
Author | Ethan Mordden |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 588 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Music appreciation |
ISBN | 0195040414 |
This authoritative guide gives the non-musician the fundamentals of orchestral music. It begins with a general introduction to the symphony and various musical styles and then describes, chronologically, over seven hundred pieces--from Vivaldi to twentieth-century composers. Mordden also includes a glossary of musical terms and other useful aids for the music lover.
The Birth of the Orchestra
Title | The Birth of the Orchestra PDF eBook |
Author | John Spitzer |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 650 |
Release | 2004-04-29 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780191513237 |
This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporaries. Ensembles of bowed stringed instruments, several players per part plus continuo and wind instruments, were organized in France in the mid-17th century and then in Rome at the end of the century. The prestige of these ensembles and of the music and performing styles of their leaders, Jean-Baptiste Lully and Arcangelo Corelli, caused them to be imitated elsewhere, until by the late 18th century, the orchestra had become a pan-European phenomenon. Spitzer and Zaslaw review previous accounts of these developments, then proceed to a thoroughgoing documentation and discussion of orchestral organization, instrumentation, and social roles in France, Italy, Germany, England, and the American colonies. They also examine the emergence of orchestra musicians, idiomatic music for orchestras, orchestral performance practices, and the awareness of the orchestra as a central institution in European life.
The Orchestra: Orchestral combination
Title | The Orchestra: Orchestral combination PDF eBook |
Author | Ebenezer Prout |
Publisher | |
Pages | 312 |
Release | 1899 |
Genre | Instrumentation and orchestration |
ISBN |
The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra
Title | The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra PDF eBook |
Author | Colin James Lawson |
Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2003-04-24 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9780521001328 |
This guide to the orchestra and orchestral life is unique in its breadth of coverage. It combinesorchestral history and repertory with a practical bias offering critical thought about the past, present and future of the orchestra. Including topics such as the art of orchestration, scorereading, conducting, international orchestras, recording, as well as consideration of what it means to be an orchestral musician, an educator, or an informed listener, it will be of interest to a wideranging readership of music historians and professional or amateur performers.
The Orchestra and Orchestral Music
Title | The Orchestra and Orchestral Music PDF eBook |
Author | W. J. Henderson |
Publisher | Forgotten Books |
Pages | 270 |
Release | 2015-06-13 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 9781330059272 |
Excerpt from The Orchestra and Orchestral Music This is not a text-book. It is not a treatise on instrumentation. It is not written for musicians, nor primarily for students of music, though the latter may find in it information of some value to them. This is simply an attempt to give to music lovers such facts about the modem orchestra as will help them in assuming an intelligent attitude toward the contemporaneous instrumental body and its performances. The author has endeavored to put before the reader a description of each instrument with an illustration which will enable him to identify its tone when next heard in the delivery of the passage quoted. Some account of the distinctive nature and functions of the strings, the wood, the brass, and the percussion instruments has been given. With this account go hand in band some remarks on the development of methods of scoring. The reader will not find such historical matter in any other book with which the present writer is acquainted. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895- 1902: Fine Arts. Literature. Fiction. History and travel, part I
Title | Classified Catalogue of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, 1895- 1902: Fine Arts. Literature. Fiction. History and travel, part I PDF eBook |
Author | Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh |
Publisher | |
Pages | 1312 |
Release | 1907 |
Genre | Classified catalogs (Dewey decimal) |
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