Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise

A Translation and Commentary

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Berlioz

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Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs

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Berlioz's Orchestration Treatise is a classic textbook which has been used as a guide to orchestration and as a source book for the understanding both of Berlioz's music and of orchestral practice in the nineteenth century. This was the first English translation of Berlioz's complete text since 1856, and it is accompanied throughout by Hugh Macdonald's extensive and authoritative commentary on the instruments of Berlioz's time and on his own orchestral practice, as revealed in his scores. It also includes extracts from Berlioz's writings on instruments in his Memoirs and in his many articles for the Parisian press. The Treatise has been highly valued both for its technical information about instruments but also for its poetic and visionary approach to the art of instrumentation. Berlioz was not only one of the great orchestrators of the nineteenth century, he was also the author with the clearest understanding of the art.

Author Biography:

Hugh Macdonald is Avis Blewett Professor of Music at Washington University, St Louis. He has been General Editor of the New Berlioz Edition since its inception in 1967. He has edited The Selected Letters of Berlioz (1995) and Volumes IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the Berlioz Correspondance générale (1992– ). He is also author of Skryabin (1978) and Berlioz (1982).

Release date Australia

April 23rd, 2007

Author

Berlioz

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Professional & Vocational

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Edited by Hugh Macdonald

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187 Printed music items; 13 Halftones, unspecified

Pages

432

Series

Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs

Dimensions

170x243x17

ISBN-13

9780521036115

Product ID

2356550

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