Principles of Orchestration and premature death — along

and premature death — along with the unforgettable story of the beautiful

enhances the text with 12 remarkable full-color plates and scores of other line drawings: decorated initial caps

and a splendid variety of other whimsical designs

In addition to these narratives

and idiosyncrasies as well as playing technique

Principles of Orchestration and premature death — along"To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught," wrote Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. But invention, in all art, is closely allied to technique, and technique can be taught. This book, therefore, which differs from most other texts on the subject because of its tremendous wealth of musical examples and its systematic arrangement of material according