Evolution of Modern Orchestration

In addition to extended studies of orchestral scores themselves, the standard works of Berlioz, Gevaert, Riemann, Parry, and others have, as a matter of course, been referred to. The subject under discussion has already been admirably handled by Lavoix in his voluminous work entitled "e;Histoire de L'Instrumentation,"e; but it was unquestionably done through French glasses, and the scores of not...