Of orchestral colour, of orchestration in the modern sense, there was little.
What he would have said of such music as that of Berlioz, where the orchestration is ridiculously out of proportion to the phrases, where the orchestra makes all the effect, if any at all is made, I cannot guess.
Haydn knew what his music was, and what orchestrationit wanted, and he never dreamed of over-orchestrating.
It is hardly credible that, arrogant enough as such attempts at improving Beethoven's orchestration are, there exist people who go further still and actually alter a great composer's directions as to expression.
On the question of orchestration we never had a moment's hesitation.
Moreover, if you leave Beethoven's scores untouched, his mastery of orchestration becomes all the more wonderful.
There is a fine ingenuity of orchestration throughout, however, and an amount of daring in harmonization which sometimes oversteps the limits of discretion.
Reyer's orchestration is discreet and free from all taint of that instrumental Volapük which is so marked in the Young Italian school.
After elaborating the melodic, harmonic, and rhythmic details of his scores, Wagner considered his main task done, and the orchestration was completed down-stairs in his music room.
Among the tasks she set for herself was the translation of the books on orchestrationby Berlioz and Gevaert.
She is masterly in her ease, and all the resources of orchestration are known to her.
No one can object to such preferences, but the science of music knows nothing about them; its exposition deals with modes of treatment or habits of orchestration distinguishing composers, irrespective of the private partialities they excite.
Later, having decided what the rhythm should be, he went on to sketch out the melody, but it was seldom that he set to work on the orchestration until the rehearsals were well under way.
Contrast this with Wagner, who makes a terrible fuss about the merest trifle, and works up his orchestration in a manner that might suggest that the heavens were falling.
His vocabulary is as marvellous as his facility in orchestrationand in the development of a theme.
In writing down the orchestration I made things particularly difficult for myself by using the specially prepared paper which the printing process renders necessary, and which involved me in all kinds of trying formalities.
My bent for writing for the orchestra was so strong that I procured a score of Don Juan, and set to work on what I then considered a very careful orchestration of a fairly long air for soprano.
Under the stress of the most terrible privations I still endeavoured to secure sufficient leisure for working out the orchestration of the score of the Fliegender Hollander.
As it would be impossible to describe Liszt's orchestration intelligibly to those who have not heard it, and unnecessary to those who have, I will simply leave it alone.
The orchestration was done during the following winter and spring.
He is the significant instrument in the orchestration of the theme at hand, and knows his body will respond to every requirement of phrasing.
The orchestration was decidedly new for Verdi, partaking, as it did, of the gorgeous Meyerbeer rather than the Wagner character.
It was the orchestration of Aida mainly which led public and critics away concerning Verdi's supposed conversion to the Wagner or some other "ism.
Some people would declare such copying to be inconceivable drudgery, but young Verdi relished the excellent insight into orchestration which such practice afforded him.
The orchestration is replete with richness and variety.
Not only was melodic exuberance stemmed in Rigoletto for a mixture of tune and recitative or musica parlante, but the orchestration had met a chastening process.
While vocally the score was adjudged poor in melody and entirely deficient in pezzi concertanti, the orchestration was decidedly less noisy--its general character being uniformly calm and tranquil.
And although his orchestration is not revolutionary, and is often commonplace enough, he nevertheless oftentimes employed an instrumental palette distinctly his own.
His orchestration is full of tricks and mannerisms that pall.
His orchestrationinvariably produces all that is cloudy and diaphanous in each instrument.
When Rimsky-Korsakoff uttered the pronouncement that a composition for orchestra could not exist before the orchestrationwas completed, he was only phrasing a rule upon which Berlioz had acted all his life.
In 1871 he became professor of composition and orchestration at the Petrograd Conservatory.
Puccini, however, gives to his distinct dramatic meaning: the coda with its orchestration is original and expressive.
While in Paris, Tchaikovsky completed the revision of his Sextet, and on his return to Russia devoted himself to the orchestration of the Nut-cracker Ballet.
In the course of the summer the orchestration would be finished.
When it came to the orchestrationhe only copied it out clearly, without essentially altering the first drafts.
The elegance of form, harmony, andorchestration are the same, but the character of the theme and its working out are quite different.
By August 17th (29th) this symphonic poem was completely sketched out in all its details, so that the composer could go straight on with the orchestration on his return to Moscow.
I am actually working at the orchestration of this work, and could have the score ready in two or three weeks.
Wagner's orchestration is too symphonic, too overloaded and heavy for vocal music.
The orchestration of the Hamlet overture is now finished.
I notice that the older I grow, the more trouble my orchestration gives me.
What surprised me chiefly was the fact that my orchestration sounded so poor.
But Schumann was either indifferent to, or ignorant of, the advance in orchestrationwhich had taken place since Beethoven.
In it Strauss, modestly ignoring himself, says that Wagner's scores mark the only advance in orchestration worth mentioning since Berlioz.
Haydn was a far greater master of orchestration than Haendel.
It is Richard Strauss's opinion that the next advancement in orchestration will be brought about by adding largely to certain groups of instruments which now have only comparatively few representatives in the orchestra.
Unfortunately for Berlioz, his ambition, in so far as it related to the art of orchestration and the skill he showed in accomplishing what he wanted to with his body of instrumentalists, was far in excess of his inspiration.
Their music is marked by a simplicity bordering on naivete, and the orchestration is a string quartet with a mere filling out by other instruments.
Richard Strauss is such a master oforchestration that I am inclined to quote his summary of the development of the art of orchestration, from his edition of the Berlioz book, which at this writing has not yet been translated.
May I be allowed to say that Bizet’s orchestration is the only one that I can endure now?
Sidenote: Orchestration] The orchestration of the cantatas is of great interest.
The orchestration is unusual, consisting of four violas, fagotto, violoncello and organ.
One peculiarity, however, of his orchestration is that the combination of instruments he chooses for a particular movement remains the same throughout.
Its orchestration is unique--there are but strings and a harp.
The noisy brass in the orchestration offended the ears of a critic, and he wrote: Vraiment l'affiche est dans son tort; En faux, ou devrait la poursuivre.
How he could produce a feeling of mediaevalism in the setting of Dante's sonnets and yet make use of the most modern means of harmonization and orchestration is still a mystery to this reviewer.
But, father, do you think such orchestration realisable in modern music?
But I could not give an opinion of the orchestrationwithout hearing it, it is all so new.
And now in the early months of the year the orchestration of this act, which I continued to send in groups of sheets to the publisher to be engraved, also neared completion.
Oh, that wonderful bit of orchestration where Mimi speaks of fear!
In fact, I have stopped in the very midst of my orchestration lesson to tell you so.
Now no more for the present, my dear, as I want my last lesson for Thuille to be a good one, and my orchestration work is unfinished.
In fact, the orchestration throughout is of such convincing power that it refutes any charge of sensationalism or mere bombast.
The orchestration is wonderful for richness and variety.
It proclaims that a serious meaning is to be revealed, and this meaning is accentuated by the orchestration which with its stratified grouping of melodic lines has a grim strength characteristic of Brahms.
If any one considers it too light or even trivial for a place in a symphony he might study the individual orchestration and then try to compose one like it!
His treatises on harmony and orchestration are standard works, the latter being the authority in modern treatment of the orchestra.
The assemblage of tastes forms a harmony as fine as anyorchestration of sounds.
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