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A History of Western Music

Orchestration Walter Piston

The author approaches orchestration from the premise that the principles can best be presented by analysis of musicas it has been written.The essentials of instrument combination discussed here are those which can be observed operating in the scores of great composers from Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven down to our own day. Orchestration is notable for the clarity and logic of it ...