Principles of Orchestration

Principles of Orchestration"To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught," wrote Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. But invention, in all art, is closely allied to technique, and technique can be taught. This book, therefore, which differs from most other texts on the subject because of its tremendous wealth of musical examples and its systematic arrangement of material according

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