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The Orchestra and Orchestral Music

by W. J. Henderson

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  1. 1Dedication — Preface
  2. 2Part I — How the Orchestra Is Constituted — I — Instruments Played…
  3. 3II — Wind-Instruments of Wood
  4. 4III — Wind-Instruments of Brass
  5. 5IV — Other Instruments
  6. 6V — The Orchestral Score
  7. 7Copyright by the London Stereoscopic Co.
  8. 8Part II — How the Orchestra Is Used — VI — General Principles
  9. 9VII — The Strings
  10. 10VIII — The Wood-Wind
  11. 11IX — The Brass and the “Battery”
  12. 12X — Qualities of Good Orchestration
  13. 13XI — Qualities of Orchestral Performance
  14. 14Charles Lamoureux
  15. 15Part III — How the Orchestra Is Directed — XII — Development of the…
  16. 16XIII — Functions of the Conductor
  17. 17Part IV — How the Orchestra Grew — XIV — From Peri to Handel
  18. 18XV — From Haydn to Wagner
  19. 19Part V — How Orchestral Music Grew — XVI — From Bach to Haydn
  20. 20XVII — From Beethoven to Richard Strauss

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