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Bibliography

1. Pedagogical books which are obsolescent but of interest to students of music history:

Gevaert, François Auguste, New Treatise on Instrumentation. Paris: Lemoine, 1895.

Hoffman, Richard, Practical Instrumentation. New York: G. Schirmer, Inc., 1893.

Prout, Ebenezer, The Orchestra. London: Augener, 1899.

Widor, Charles-Marie, The Technique of the Modern Orchestra. London: Joseph Williams, 1906.

2. Books which are of importance to formulation of general theories of orchestration:

Berlioz-Strauss, Treatise on Instrumentation and Modern Orchestration. New York: E. F. Kalmus, 1948.

Ekman, Karl, Jean Sibelius, His Life and Personality. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1939.

Guiraud, Ernest, Traite Pratique d’Instrumentation. Paris: Durand, 1933.

Kohs, Ellis B., “An Aural Approach to Orchestration,” The Musical Mercury, Vol. VI, No. 3-4 (March, 1939). New York: E. F. Kalmus.

Malipiero, Gian Francesco, The Orchestra. London: Chester, 1921.

Piston, Walter, Orchestration. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1955.

Rimsky-Korsakov, Nicolas, Principles of Orchestration. Berlin and New York: Edition Russe de Musique, 1923.

Rogers, Bernard, The Art of Orchestration. New York: Appleton-Century-Crofts, Inc., 1951.

Schillinger, Joseph, The Schillinger System of Musical Composition, Book XII, “Theory of Orchestration.” New York: Carl Fischer, Inc., 1941.

Stravinsky, Igor, The Poetics of Music in the Form of Six Lessons. Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1947.

Wagner, Richard, On Conducting. London: William Reeves, 1919.

Wellesz, Die Neue Instrumentation. Berlin: M. Hesse, 1929.

3. Books which contain encyclopedic discussion of instrumentation:

Forsyth, Cecil, Orchestration. New York: The Macmillan Co., 1935.

Read, Gardner, Thesaurus of Orchestral Devices. New York: Pitman Publishing Corp., 1953.

4. Recent books with pedagogical emphasis:

Anderson, Arthur Olaf, Practical Orchestration. Boston: C. C. Birchard, 1929.

Heacox, Arthur, Project Lessons in Orchestration. Philadelphia: Oliver Ditson, 1928.

Jacob, Gordon, Orchestral Technique. London: Oxford University Press, 1931.

Kennan, Kent Wheeler, The Technique of Orchestration. Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1952.

Wagner, Joseph, Orchestration: A Practical Handbook. New York: McGraw-Hill Book Co., Inc., 1959.

5. Books on the history of the orchestra and its instrumentation:

Bekker, Paul, The Story of the Orchestra. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1936.

Carse, Adam, The Orchestra in the Eighteenth Century. Cambridge, England: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1940.

Carse, Adam, The Orchestra from Beethoven to Berlioz. Cambridge, England: W. Heffer and Sons, Ltd., 1948.

Carse, Adam, The History of Orchestration. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Triebner and Co., Ltd., 1925.

Geiringer, Karl, Musical Instruments, Their History from the Stone Age to the Present Day. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., 1945.

Sachs, Curt, The History of Musical Instruments. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, Inc., 1940.