This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... P The score looks almost like a row of empty staves; and yet how masterly the effect of a very few notes! Observe first the contrasts of rhythm; the staccato subject in the basses is answered by legato passages for the wood, while the violins maintain an agitated tremolo throughout.-Note also the contrasts of piano ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1899 Excerpt: ... P The score looks almost like a row of empty staves; and yet how masterly the effect of a very few notes! Observe first the contrasts of rhythm; the staccato subject in the basses is answered by legato passages for the wood, while the violins maintain an agitated tremolo throughout.-Note also the contrasts of piano and forte, and the effect of the sforzando chords of the horns, with the single stroke of the drum, at the end of each phrase. We must remark, by the way, that Cherubini has here, as in most of his earlier scores, written the clarinets as non-transposing instruments. The part would, of course, be played on B clarinets. 150. In the following passage Nicola 1: Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor. Ex. 93. y Violoncello. other kinds of contrast are seen. The horn solo, unaccompanied, is answered by the upper strings in harmony; in the third bar a short subject for oboe and clarinets is imitated by the strings; while in the last two bars iterated chords are given to strings and wind alternately. 151. The seventh and eighth bars of the above passage illustrate what has been so often said in the course of this work--that there is hardly a rule of orchestration to which exceptions are not to be found. In 142 we laid down the general principle that the tone-colour should not be changed in the middle of a motive. But in these bars the motives are divided between the horns and oboes. The reason probably is that the passages, if written only for the horn, thus--would have been difficult and uncertain, and the upper F$ would have been too thin in tone to produce the sforzando effect required. The composer's judgment and experience must decide when such departures from the ordinary principles are advisable. shows a phrase for the first violins, answered by...
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Volume 1. Twelfth Impression. This book has hardback covers. Ex-library, With usual stamps and markings, In poor condition, suitable as a reading copy. No dust jacket. Please note the Image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item, 550grams, ISBN:
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