Orchestration : an anthology of writings
Title:
Orchestration : an anthology of writings
JLCTITLE245:
edited by Paul Mathews.
Publication Information:
New York : Routledge, c2006.
Physical Description:
230 p. : ill., music ; 23 cm.
ISBN:
9780415976824
9780415976831
Bibliography Note:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 219-226) and index.
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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.