Cecil Forsyth - Orchestration (Dover Books on Music

1982 | ISBN: 0486243834 | EPUB | 592 pages | 45 MB
"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.