But, on the other hand, I consider that the merits of the instrumentation are beyond dispute.
Both make the same fundamental error of regardinginstrumentation as something extrinsic from the music for which it exists.
I set myself to work on the instrumentation at the end of the winter, while still at Biarritz, and I finished it on April 6 at Monaco.
With him the instrumentation is never apparel, and that is why it never strikes one.
Others altogether ignore that side of his art, holding that instrumentation is a secondary matter and that only "ideas" are worthy of consideration.
There are those who contend that Beethoven's instrumentation was bad and his tone color poor.
In contrast with the florid orchestration of Wagner, with its lavish coloring, Beethoven's instrumentation will appear to lack luster.
This preoccupation with the subject of tone material manifested itself also in my instrumentation of Les Noces, which, after long delays, was at last to be produced by Diaghileff.
When I had orchestrated a section, he would show me his own instrumentation of the same passage.
His instrumentation is often like Meyerbeer's, and Rossinian tendencies are apparent as well.
These final remarks must therefore deal not with the subject of instrumentation proper, but rather with the æsthetic and philosophical aspect of modern Italian music, the influence it has exerted, and the direction it is taking.
His form and instrumentation show German rather than Italian influence, modified withal by unquestionable French coloring.
In spite of the fact that Auber's orchestra presents nothing actually new, the charm of his instrumentation has exerted great influence upon that art in France.
He was fortunate in having under his control a large orchestra at the Notre Dame, and his contributions to French instrumentation in detail are important.
In contradistinction to these essays at dramatic scoring should be mentioned the instrumentationof Striggio (1535), whose intermezzi or comedies interspersed with music were written in the madrigal style.
The key-note is dainty scoring; the singing can always be distinctly heard, and although few novel effects of instrumentation are to be noted, variety and contrast of tone are constantly to be met with.
The instrumentation of his chamber music betrays more regard for sonority than for classic counterpoint.
The second and more powerful incentive that instrumentation received was from monody, in connection with which its function as accompaniment in simplified form was demonstrated.
At the San Carlo, where he found the finest orchestra in Italy, he paid particular attention to the instrumentation of his operas.
Perhaps there is no more splendid example of moderninstrumentation than the march in the "Prophete," wherein every possible brass instrument is employed.
The instrumentation of Rossini is really incomparable by the vivacity and freedom of the manner, by the variety and justness of the colouring.
The melodies are refined, and a certain poetical tinge, peculiar to the composer, pervades its pages, whilst the instrumentation is altogether of great excellence.
No words can express the art with which the composer has developed his themes, or give an idea of the delicacy of an instrumentation which, gossamer-like, seems to float in an atmosphere of melody.
The instrumentation of "Phaeton" is in itself worth a detailed notice, and is a perfect marvel of ingenuity.
The instrumentationof "Samson et Dalila" is rich and varied, yet never unduly complicated.
If I knew the pure theory of my father's machine I could not design the instrumentation that would make it work.
Louis Holden had been a fine instrumentation engineer, but his first models were hay-wired in the breadboard form.
The instrumentationof the "Rhinegold" is going on apace.
I have made an entirely new score, have rewritten the instrumentation throughout, have made many changes, and have given more expansion and importance to the middle portion (second motive).
I shall take my work with me, and hope to finish the instrumentation of the "Valkyrie" there.
Through London I have got into awful arrears with my work; only yesterday was I able to finish the instrumentationof the first act of the "Valkyie.
Her instrumentation is said to be excellent and the work a very strong one.
Accordingly Liszt went on by himself, but entered upon thorough private lessons in counterpoint and instrumentation from Paer and Reicha.
The following month he began "Die Walkuere" and finished all but the instrumentation during the following winter and the full score in 1856.
But however simple, not to say primitive, the instrumentationof his Italian operas now strikes us, he made one great innovation in opera for which we readily can grant him recognition as a reformer.
The Nuremburg Motive in sonorous and festive instrumentation closes this melodious episode.
The result is a choice and variety of instrumentation which in itself is almost an equivalent for dramatic action and enables the orchestra to adapt itself with unerring accuracy to the varying phases of the drama.
There is no doubt, however, that what may be called the "largeness" of Meyerbeer's style and the effectiveness of his instrumentation had their influence on Wagner.
Similarly, the projects had air-frame departments, propulsion departments, instrumentation departments, and administrative departments.
He met Cliff Damon, chief of the instrumentation section, who showed him the intricate devices used to track the big rockets and to record just about everything that went on inside them.
That Committee concludes that "illegal instrumentation contributes to an overwhelming degree to the mortality from abortion.
He may work to improve nuclear weapons, to aid space travel, or to devise nuclear medical instrumentation for use by physicians.
He must understand what happens when his instrumentation is integrated into an entire system of production and control.
The instrument engineer examines a job to be done and then designs the instrumentation to do it.
The instrumentation is rich, and even where the rapid progress of the action causes difficulties, it is full of effects of light and shade.
There is a variety of instrumentation unmistakably present, and the horns are specially favoured; there is one passage which imitates the bagpipes.
The instrumentation is carefully and effectively worked out.
I intended the song for Raaff at first, but the beginning was too high, and it pleased me too much to be altered; besides, the instrumentation seemed to make it more fitted for a soprano.
But neither the plan nor the composition are on a larger scale than usual; the work is wanting both in extent and expression, and the instrumentation is neither free nor forcible.
Coakley on ‘Removal of papillomata of larynx by direct instrumentation with the aid of Killian’s tubes.
One of these next days the instrumentationwill be completed, and when we have an opportunity we can have it performed in Weimar in your honor and that of "Weimar's dead.
I hope Herbeck will be pleased with theinstrumentation of the Schubert Marches.
When I expressed to my cousin my wish to place the instrumentation of the Mass in your hands, it was because I was convinced beforehand of the excellence of your work.
And as this will give you occasion to see Doppler, give him my warm thanks for the instrumentation of the Pester Carnaval (in which musical Paprika and Pfefferoni are not wanting).
The Weymar and Jena Schiller Festivals, following on the top of that, made it utterly impossible for me to get on with the instrumentation of the Marches.
Naturally your name will stand on the title-page, and the responsibility of the instrumentation will be remitted to you.
The history of the early stages of electromagnetic instrumentation is traced here through the men who devised the theories and constructed the instruments.
Early electrical instrumentation based on the heating effect took an unusual form.
The instrumentation was very graphic, and as Weber had been brought up upon the stage, there were many novelties of a scenic kind.
The instrumentation is richly colored and the climaxes are of vast power and effect.
His instrumentationwas very full and sonorous, and his dramatic instinct excellent.
His instrumentation is rich, at times bizarre, and strongly contrasted.
This was not always so, but is the fruit of development in the art of instrumentation which is the newest department in music.
The art of writing effectively for instruments in combination is the art of instrumentation or orchestration, in which Berlioz and Wagner were Past Grand Masters.
To those living in this age of stupendous achievement in the art, the comparative simplicity and ineffectiveness of instrumentationmay well seem strange, seeing to what a point of splendour vocal music had attained.
We believe that the talking machine people should have as good protection as ourselves on their original or characteristic works embodying the personalities and instrumentation of their artists, bands, orchestras, etc.
It is the picture of the voice or of the instrumentation as, for instance, a copyrighted photograph is a picture of a person or thing.
This is true regarding personality of every voice and instrumentation recorded.
This record of the voice and instrumentation for sound reproducing is an art which was not commercially available, or perfected, when the earlier copyright laws were passed, and therefore were not included.
This is true regarding the personality of every voice andinstrumentation recorded.
This record of the voice and instrumentation for sound reproducing is an art which was not commercially available or perfected when the earlier copyright laws were passed, and therefore was not included.
I hope to finish it in a day or two, and set to work upon the instrumentation at Kamenka.
Herr Lallemant candidly confessed that many of my works which had been performed in Hamburg were not at all to his mind; that he could not endure my noisy instrumentation and disliked my use of the instruments of percussion.
The instrumentation was completed by the end of April.
The work to which Tchaikovsky refers at the beginning of this letter was the instrumentation of his overture in F major, which had been originally scored for the small orchestra of the Petersburg Conservatoire.
I shall try not to go out during the next fortnight, but to give myself up in earnest to the instrumentationof my Suite.
The instrumentation of a work which is completely thought out and matured is a most enjoyable task.
It was not so much Wagner's music as his instrumentation which impressed Tchaikovsky.
I do not lay myself out to write easy things; I know my instrumentation is almost always rather difficult.
Tchaikovsky worked very little while at Borjom, only spending an hour a day at the instrumentation of the "Mozartiana" Suite.
I shall begin the instrumentation of the Suite with ardour, because I am strongly attracted to a new subject for an opera: Schiller's Maid of Orleans.
The original plan of instrumentation often undergoes some modifications.
If nothing prevents me I hope to have the sketch ready by the spring: so that I may devote next year to the instrumentation and working out.
There was an infernal sort of skill in the instrumentation at times, a short-breathed juggling with other men's ideas, but no development, no final cadence.
Illustration] [Illustration] Some characteristics of his harmony and instrumentation will most conveniently be considered later.
There are no melodies so rich and well fancied as those to be found in his later works; and in sense of dramatic form and effective instrumentation (always a faulty point with Donizetti) he displayed great progress at the last.
The beauty of the instrumentationand the melodious richness of the work were unmistakable, and henceforth every production of the young composer was watched with great interest.
The overture bears a striking resemblance to that of 'Figaro,' and the instrumentation of the whole opera is highly characteristic, though not so prominent as in Mozart.
The instrumentation of Rossini is really incomparable by the vivacity and freedom of the manner, by the variety and justness of the coloring.
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