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Genre/Form: | Aufsatzsammlung Quelle History |
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Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Orchestration. New York : Routledge, ©2006 (OCoLC)639364982 |
Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Paul Mathews |
ISBN: | 0415976820 9780415976824 0415976839 9780415976831 |
OCLC Number: | 70407773 |
Description: | 230 pages : illustrations, music ; 23 cm |
Contents: | The early nineteenth century : Beethoven's orchestration. -- The late nineteenth century : French and German orchestration I -- Interlude : orchestral possibilities on the eve of the new music -- The turn of the twentieth century : French and German orchestration II -- The early twentieth century : Klangfarbenmelodie and texture -- Later twentieth-century innovations. Section I. The early nineteenth century : Beethoven's orchestration. On the symphony : part II, chapter III of School of practical composition / Carl Czerny -- Instruments added to the scores of old masters : chapter XIII of à Travers chants / Hector Berlioz -- On the rendering of Beethoven's Ninth symphony / Richard Wagner -- Instruments added by modern composers : Wagner and Beethoven / Charles Gounod -- Pamphlet on Mahler's edition of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony / Gustav Mahler and Siegfried Lipiner -- Beethoven's instrumentation / Igor Stravinsky. Section II. The late nineteenth century : French and German orchestration I. Statements on orchestration / Gustav Mahler -- First lesson : preliminary Instruction : from Cours méthodique d'orchestration / F.-A. Gevaert -- Foreword to Berlioz' Treatise on instrumentation / Richard Strauss. Section III. Interlude : orchestral possibilities on the eve of the new music. The orchestra : from Treatise on instrumentation / Hector Berlioz, annotated by Richard Strauss -- Orchestra tutti : from chapter X of A course of instruction in instrumentation / Salomon Jadassohn -- The general divisions and classification of the principal instruments of the orchestra : from Anatomie et phisiologie de l'orchestra / Delius and Papus -- Composition of the orchestra : chapter IV of Principals [i.e. Principles] of orchestration / Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov. Section IV. The turn of the twentieth century : French and German orchestration II. An inadequate means for musical expression / Ferruccio Busoni -- The orchestra : diatonic and atonal music : from Vom Wesen des Musikalischen / Josef Matthias Hauer -- Possibilities of the concert wind band from the standpoint of the modern composer / Percy Grainger -- Instrumentation / Arnold Schoenberg -- The balance of sonorities : volume and intensity / Charles Koechlin -- Instrumentation : from Conversations with Stravinsky / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft. Section V. The early twentieth century : Klangfarbenmelodie and texture. Klangfarbenmelodie : from Theory of harmony (Harmonielehre) / Arnold Schoenberg -- Letter to Heinrich Jalowetz regarding the Symphony, op. 21 ; Letter to Herman Scherchen regarding the transcription of J.S. Bach's Ricercata / Anton Webern -- Anton Webern : Klangfarbenmelodien / Arnold Schoenberg -- Regarding Klangfarbenmelodie / Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft -- Timbral relationships and their functional use / Alfred Schnittke. Section VI. Later twentieth-century innovations. Program notes for the Fourth symphony / Charles Ives -- Instrumental character and the problem of the tutti : from Flawed words and stubborn sounds / Elliott Carter and Allen Edwards -- On the size and seating of an orchestra / Steve Reich -- Spatial music and orchestration : from Spaced out with Henry Brant / Henry Brant and Frank J. Oteri -- Remarks on orchestration / Morton Feldman -- Timbre and composition-timbre and language / Pierre Boulez. |
Responsibility: | edited by Paul Mathews. |
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Abstract:
Intended for college-level music majors, this collection traces the history of orchestration, beginning with Beethoven's Orchestra (with writings by Berlioz, Wagner, Gounod, Mahler, and others). It illuminates how orchestration has grown and developed, and offers a variety of theories that have been embraced by practitioners in the field.
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