The Orchestra, Volume I
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- Title
- The Orchestra, Volume I
- Author
- Ebenezer Prout
- Subtitle
- Technique of the Instruments
- Publisher
- Augener & Co.
- Place
- London
- Year
- 1898
- Language
- English
- Type
- Orchestration treatise / instrumentation
SCOPE & CONTENT
The first volume of Prout’s orchestration treatise concentrates on the compass, mechanism, tone, practical limitations and characteristic use of orchestral instruments. It belongs to the late nineteenth-century pedagogical tradition that systematized orchestral technique for students and composers, and is valuable for comparing historical instrumental expectations with modern practice.
RESEARCH VALUE
For research use, this record is intended to preserve both bibliographic identity and historical context. Because the book belongs to an earlier phase of musicology or criticism, its factual observations can remain highly useful while broader aesthetic, racial, national or evolutionary assumptions should be checked against modern scholarship and current critical editions.
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