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INTRUMENTSO F THE MODERN ORCHESTRA & EARLY RECORD OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE VIOLIN FAMILY, 1910
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1PREFACE.
3THIS work, obviously characterised by numerous departures from conventional methods, is intended as a simple practical handbook for students and others who wish to be able to identify the instruments in the orchestra, when seeing and hearing them, without studying instrumentation.
5Part I deals with the instruments of the modern orchestra on a uniform plan, the necessary information being systematically arranged for each member of it, without unnecessary technicalities, under the headings of Construction, Production of sound, Compass, Quality of tone, Possibilities, Origin, and accompanied in each case by at least one illustration. As the nomenclature of the degrees of pitch in the successive octaves is often a puzzle, a table has been given showing the various methods in use at the present time, including the system suggested by M. Victor Mahillon at the International Musical Congress held in Paris in 1900 and duly adopted.
7Part II is an excursion into the domain of archaeology in quest of the remote origin of the violin family. It will be noticed that the conclusions at which I have arrived after many years of research differ entirely from those of such authorities as E. J. Payne in Grove's "Dictionary of Music and Musicians" (first edition); Edward Heron Allen in "Violin Making as it Was and Is"; Antoine Vidal in "Les
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