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Principles of Orchestration, with Musical Examples Drawn from His Own Works

My aim in undertaking this work is to reveal the principles of modern orchestration in a somewhat different light than that usually brought to bear upon the subject. I have followed these principles in orchestrating my own works, and, wishing to impart some of my ideas to young composers, I have quoted examples from my own compositions, or given references to them, endeavouring to show, in all sincerity, what is successful and what is not. No one can know except the author himself the purpose and motives which governed him during the composition of a certain work, and the practice of explaining the intentions of a composer, so prevalent amongst annotators, however reverent and discreet, appears to me far from satisfactory. They will attribute a too closely philosophic, or excessively poetic meaning to a plain and simple fact. Sometimes the respect which great composers' names command will cause inferior examples to be quoted as good; cases of carelessness or ignorance, easily explained by the imperfections of current technique, give rise to whole pages of laborious exposition, in defence, or even in admiration of a faulty passage. This book is written for those who have already studied instrumentation from Gevaert's excellent treatise, or any other well-known manual, and who have some knowledge of a number of orchestral scores. I shall therefore only just touch on such technical questions as fingering, range, emission of sound etc.[6] ......Buy Now (To Read More)

Product details

Ebook Number: 33900
Author: Rimsky-Korsakov, Nikolay
Release Date: Sep 29, 2010
Format: eBook
Language: English

Contributors

Editor: Shteinberg, Maksimilian, 1883-1946

Translator: Agate, Edward