Orchestration

by Cecil Forsyth

Overview

"For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." — New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In what is probably the best general book on the subject, a noted English composer describes 57 orchestral instruments, tracing their origins, development, and status at the beginning of World War I.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780486243832
Publisher:	Dover Publications
Publication date:	10/01/1982
Series:	Dover Books on Music Series
Edition description:	Revised ed.
Pages:	592
Product dimensions:	5.32(w) x 8.66(h) x 1.17(d)