Author: Hamilton Clarke

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2015-06-13

Total Pages: 132

ISBN-13: 9781330056417

Excerpt from A Manual of Orchestration, Designed Especially to Enable Amateurs to Follow Intelligently the Performance of Orchestral Music "Orchestration" is a word which is now in the mouth of every boy and girl who is taken to hear a concert or an opera. It is a coined and most unsatisfactory word; so is its companion "instrumentation." But modern usage is much addicted to coining words, especially when a long word saves the trouble of saying several short ones. "Orchestration" is shorter than "scoring for the orchestra," and "instrumentation" than "arranging for the different instruments." It is only in quite latter times that the word "orchestration" has been so much heard amongst the talk of the people; this is probably attributable to the advent amongst us of certain operas of the modem German school, wherein the use of the orchestra is the chief and only point of interest in the performance. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.