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Treatise on Instrumentation is represented here as a researched bibliographic dossier for a historically significant source in music study. The volume belongs to the literature surrounding instrumentation / orchestration treatise and is catalogued with normalized title and author variants so that it remains discoverable even when a scanned…

Evenings with the Orchestra preserves Berlioz’s distinctive mixture of criticism, autobiography, satire and observation of nineteenth-century musical life. It offers direct evidence about orchestral practice, opera, concert institutions, performers and the critical culture in which Berlioz worked.

Les Grotesques de la musique preserves Berlioz’s distinctive mixture of criticism, autobiography, satire and observation of nineteenth-century musical life. It offers direct evidence about orchestral practice, opera, concert institutions, performers and the critical culture in which Berlioz worked.

À travers chants preserves Berlioz’s distinctive mixture of criticism, autobiography, satire and observation of nineteenth-century musical life. It offers direct evidence about orchestral practice, opera, concert institutions, performers and the critical culture in which Berlioz worked.

Hadow’s first series links Berlioz, Schumann and Wagner to the Romantic movement and to changing ideas of musical expression. Rather than functioning as simple biographies, the essays combine historical narrative, criticism and aesthetic argument, making the book a useful witness to English views of continental Romanticism at the…