Treatise on Instrumentation and whatever else was needed

and whatever else was needed to offer a full picture of each “tribe

and comedy

McMaster University

including 17 full-color plates

Ranging from 15th- through 20th-century sources

Treatise on Instrumentation and whatever else was neededThe 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