The orchestra : origins and transformations / Joan Peyser, editor.

Other author Peyser, Joan, editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Charles Scribner's Sons, ©1986.
Descriptionxvii, 652 pages : music ; 25 cm
Subjects
Orchestra.

Contents The consolidation of the main elements of the orchestra: 1470-1768 / Robert L. Weaver -- The modern orchestra: a creation of the late eighteenth century / George B. Stauffer -- Instruments and their use: early times to the rise of the orchestra / Gregory G. Butler -- Ensemble music moves out of the private house: Haydn to Beethoven / Michael Broyles -- Technical development of musical instruments: strings / Nancy Groce -- Technical development of musical instruments: woodwinds / Nancy Toff -- Technical development of musical instruments: brass / Barbara Lambert -- Romantic composers respond to challenge and demand / Alan Houtchens -- Orchestral texture and the art of orchestration / R. Larry Todd -- Why conductors? their role and the idea of fidelity / Denis Stevens -- The public for orchestral music in the nineteenth century / Peter Anthony Bloom -- The main forms of orchestral music / Elaine R. Sisman -- The orchestra in opera and ballet / Katherine T. Rohrer -- The new conception of "the work of art" / Michael Beckerman -- The rise of the classical repertoire in nineteenth-century orchestral concerts / William Weber -- Music in relation to the orchestra as museum / J. Peter Burkholder -- Musicology and the rise of the independent orchestra / Jon W. Finson -- Twentieth-century composers return to the small ensemble / Bryan R. Simms -- The orchestra and recorded sound / Lance W. Brunner -- The new amateur player and listener / Edward Rothstein -- The star conductor and musical virtuosity / Rufus Hallmark -- The extended orchestra / Tod Machover.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographies and index.
LCCN 86006618
ISBN0684180685 :

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Music Music Stacks ML1200 .O75 1986 ✔ Available Place Hold