Treatise on Instrumentation (Dover Books on Music)
Book Details
Author(s)
Berlioz, Hector
Publisher
Dover Publications
ISBN / ASIN
0486269035
ISBN-13
9780486269030
Availability
In Stock.
Sales Rank
#618,016
Marketplace
United States 🇺🇸
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Description
The most influential work of its kind ever written, appraising the musical qualities and potential of over 60 commonly used stringed, wind and percussion instruments. With 150 illustrative full-score musical examples from works by Berlioz, Mozart, Beethoven, Gluck, Weber, Wagner, and others, and numerous smaller musical examples. Complete with Berlioz' chapters on the orchestra and on conducting. Translated by Theodore Front. Foreword by Richard Strauss. Glossary.
