Orchestration: An Anthology of Writings

With writings by Berlioz, Wagner, Gounod, Mahler, Schoenberg, Reich, and others, this collection of writings traces the history of orchestration and its development, as well as presents a wide variety of theories that have been embraced by the leading practitioners in the field.

Author: Paul Mathews
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 10/01/2006
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.64w x 0.52d
ISBN: 9780415976831

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 02/01/2007 pg. 245

About the Author

Paul Mathews teaches at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University where he has previously been chair of Music Theory and currently directs the music classes on the main Hopkins campus. His recent scholarship concerns the dialectic of French and German orchestration in the late nineteenth century. Mathews is also an active composer.