Orchestration

<p><em>Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings</em> is designed to be a primary or ancillary text for college-level music majors. Although there are several 'how to' textbooks aimed at this market there is little available that traces the history of orchestration through the writings of composers themselves. By collecting writings from the ninenteenth century to today Mathews illuminates how orchestration has grown and developed as well as presenting a wide variety of theories that have been embraced by the leading practitioners in the field. </p><p>The collection then traces the history of orchestration beginning with Beethoven's Orchestra (with writings by Berlioz Wagner Gounod Mahler and others) the 19th century (Mahler Gevaert Strauss) the fin de siecle (on the edge of musical modernism; writings by Berlioz Jadassohn Delius and Rimsky Korsakov) early modern (Busoni Schoenberg Stravinsky Grainger and others) and high modern (Carter Feldman Reich Brant). Many of these pieces have never been translated into English before; some only appeared in small journals or the popular press and have never appeared in a book; and none have ever been collected in one place.</p><p>The study of orchestration is a key part of all students of music theory and composition. <em>Orchestration</em><em> </em>provides a much needed resource for these students filling a gap in the literature.</p>