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Treatise on Instrumentation. Grand traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes, abbreviated in English as the Treatise on Instrumentation (sometimes Treatise on Orchestration) is a technical study of Western musical instruments written by Hector Berlioz.
His many prose writings include a Treatise on Instrumentation (still sometimes used today), a book on harmony, and a Vade Mecum for organists. Notable students of Gevaert included Alfred Wotquenne , who is best known for having provided the first thorough listing of C. P. E. Bach 's compositions, whilst Gevaert's daughter Jacqueline Marthe ...
Berlioz was a great admirer of Weber's, having been disappointed more than once in his quest to meet him, and referring repeatedly in his Treatise on Instrumentation to Weber's works. He agreed to participate, on condition that the opera be performed complete and unadapted (it had been cut and retitled "Robin des bois" for an Odéon production ...
[4] May relates the piece to a comment Strauss had made in his 1904 update on Berlioz' Treatise on Instrumentation, where he comments on a bassoon passage: "One can't help hearing the voice of an old man humming the melodies dearest to him when he was a youth". [5] A performance takes about 18 minutes.
Richard Strauss states, in his edition of Hector Berlioz's Treatise on Instrumentation, that its tone "...had not the slightest similarity with the low tones of the bassoon" (Berlioz and Strauss 1948, [page needed]). Despite this distinction, the contrabass oboe never became popular or widely used, and few remain today.
The octobass is an extremely large and rare bowed string instrument first built around 1850 in Paris by the French luthier Jean-Baptiste Vuillaume (1798–1875). It has three strings and is essentially a larger version of the double bass – the specimen in the collection of the Musée de la Musique in Paris measures 3.48 metres (11 ft 5 in) in length, whereas a full-size double bass is ...
Seven countries, an ocean and over a thousand miles stand between them and their dreams for a future
In 1855, in a revised version of his Treatise on Instrumentation, the French composer Hector Berlioz described several of Sax's newly invented instruments, including the saxtubas: These are instruments with mouth-piece [ 19 ] and a mechanism of three cylinders; they are of enormous sonorousness, carrying far, and producing extraordinary effect ...