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The Orchestra
By Paul Bekker
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By Paul Bekker
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Orchestral music is the most popular of all musical forms. Highly evolved, it also exhibits special characteristics according to time and place. This book tells the story of the different generations of orchestral types, from the beginnings of the classical orchestra of Haydn to the mechanistic orchestra of Stravinsky and Schoenberg.
Each period of orchestral history had its own ideal of sound, and it was not the creative musician alone but also the audience he wrote for who together determi...
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