Hector Berlioz, BerliozBerlioz's Orchestration Treatise
A Translation and Commentary
Herausgeber: Macdonald, Hugh
Hugh Macdonald is Avis Blewett Professor of Music at Washington University, St Louis. He has been General Editor of the New Berlioz Edition since its inception in 1967. He has edited The Selected Letters of Berlioz (1995) and Volumes IV, V, VI, VII, and VIII of the Berlioz Correspondance générale (1992- ). He is also author of Skryabin (1978) and Berlioz (1982).
List of illustrations
Preface
A note on the edition
A note on the translation
Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
The Treatise
Introduction
1. Bowed strings
2. Plucked strings
3. Strings with keyboard
4. Wind: introduction
5. Wind with reeds
6. Wind without reeds
7. Wind with keyboard
8. Brass with mouthpiece
9. Woodwind with mouthpiece
10. Voices
11. Pitched percussion
12. Unpitched percussion
13. New instruments
14. The orchestra
15. The conductor and his art
Appendix: Berlioz's writing on instruments
Bibliography
General index
Index of Berlioz's works.
