A Treatise upon Modern Instrumentation and Orchestration

Contents

• Introduction
• 1. Instruments
• 2. Instruments played with a bow - the violin
• 3. The viola
• 4. The viole d'amour
• 5. The violincello
• 6. Double-basses
• Stringed instruments played with the hand
• Stringed instruments with keys
• Wind instruments
• Table of transposing and non-transposing instruments
• Reed instruments
• Wind instruments without reeds
• Wind instruments with key-boards
• Brass instruments with mouth-pieces
• Instruments with a mouth-piece, and of wood
• Voices
• Instruments of percussion
• New instruments
• The orchestra
• The orchestral conductor - theory of his art.