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Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings.(Book review)
Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings. Edited by Paul Mathews. New York: Routledge, 2006. [230 p. ISBN 10: 0-415-97683-9. $35.00.] Bibliography, index, music examples.
In his preface, Paul Mathews declares Hector Berlioz's Grand traite d'instrumentation et d'orchestration of 1844 "a watershed moment in the history of orchestration" (pages unnumbered in the front matter). While books about instrumental practice had been published periodically since the sixteenth century, no one as prominent as Berlioz had done so as extensively, nor had the case been made that orchestration--to Berlioz, the balancing of appropriate numbers and types of instruments, considering ...
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