The symphonic orchestra is intriguingly considered in essays by 23 leading music authors and thinkers. Topics include historical beginnings, the role of the conductor, the orchestral audience, the nature of the repertoire, and how recordings have affected the modern orchestra. With a new editor's introduction for this 2006 edition and a glossary of terms.
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Joan Peyser, former editor of The Musical Quarterly, four-time winner of the ASCAP/Deems Taylor Award, and honoree of The National Federation of Music Clubs, lives in New York
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Well written compendium on the origins and transformations of the orchestra over time.Although above the level of the newcomer, this has much info which will inform and interest music lovers of all levels in classical music interest. It is thorough in its coverage of instrument development, composers, conductors, electronic recording, concerts, vocal vs. instrumental, etc.
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The elements that compose what is currently called the "orchestra" coalesced about the middle of the eighteenth century into a complex yet remarkably stable tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
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Concert Spirituel, United States, Philharmonic Society, Richard Strauss, World War, Gramophone Company, Richard Wagner, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Deutsche Grammophon, Vaughan Williams, Eduard Hanslick, Adam Carse, Don Giovanni, New Grove Dictionary, Hector Berlioz, Middle Ages, Vienna Philharmonic, Ninth Symphony, Robert Schumann, French Revolution, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Haydn's Symphony, Carl Maria von Weber New!
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The elements that compose what is currently called the "orchestra" coalesced about the middle of the eighteenth century into a complex yet remarkably stable tradition. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
sin fouie, independent orchestra, amateur listener, extended orchestra, acoustic period, classical orchestration, star conductor, orchestral recordings, orchestral tradition, modern musicology, orchestral repertoire, violin family, extramusical ideas, sin fonia, orchestral literature, recorded repertoire, modern orchestra, ensemble songs, romantic orchestra, prominent conductors, quiet instruments, string texture, natural trumpet, slide trumpet, two oboes Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Concert Spirituel, United States, Philharmonic Society, Richard Strauss, World War, Gramophone Company, Richard Wagner, Berlin Philharmonic, New York Philharmonic, Boston Symphony, Deutsche Grammophon, Vaughan Williams, Eduard Hanslick, Adam Carse, Don Giovanni, New Grove Dictionary, Hector Berlioz, Middle Ages, Vienna Philharmonic, Ninth Symphony, Robert Schumann, French Revolution, Gewandhaus Orchestra, Haydn's Symphony, Carl Maria von Weber New!
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- New Grove Dictionary by Sadie on 6 pages
- The Beautiful in Music by E Hanslick on 4 pages
- On Playing the Flute by Johann Joachim Quantz on 4 pages
- Source Readings in Music History: The Renaissance (Renaissance Era) by W. Oliver Strunk on 4 pages
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- Listening in Paris: A Cultural History (Studies on the History of Society and Culture) by James H. Johnson in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Music Criticism in Nineteenth-Century France: La Revue et gazette musicale de Paris 1834-80 by Katharine Ellis in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- Canon Vs. Culture: Reflections on the Current Debate (Wellesley Studies in Critical Theory, Literary History and Culture) by Jan Groak on page 149, and page 150
- The Cambridge Companion to the Orchestra (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Colin Lawson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Gender and the Musical Canon by Marcia J. Citron in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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