1: Introduction
2: Pre-orchestral Ensembles
3: Lully's Orchestra
4: Corelli's Orchestra
5: The Orchestra in Italy
6: The Orchestra in France
7: The Orchestra in Germany
8: The Orchestra in England
9: The Classical Orchestra
10: Placement, Seating, and Acoustics
11: Orchestral Performance Practices
12: Life and Times of the Orchestra Musician
13: The Birth of Orchestration
14: The Meaning of the Orchestra
John Spitzer studied with Reuben Brower and Barrington Moore at
Harvard, where he received his first degree. He studied musicology
and ethnomusicology at Cornell University with William Austin,
James Webster, Sotiros Chianis, and Bell Yung. He held a
Postdoctoral Fellowship at the university of Pittsburgh (1983-84),
then taught at the University of Michigan (1984-87). In 1987 he
joined the faculty of the Peabody Conservatory of the Johns Hopkins
University in
Baltimore, MD. He has published scholarly articles on the history
of the orchestra, American song, authorship and authenticity, and
the relations between Western and non-Western music, as well as
music
reviews and articles in newspapers, magazines, dictionaries, and
encyclopedias. Neal Zaslaw holds degrees from Harvard, the
Juilliard School, and Columbia University. He is the author of more
than 65 articles on baroque music, historical performance
practices, Mozart, and the early history of the orchestra, as well
as numerous books, including Mozart's Symphonies: Context,
Performance Practice, Reception (Oxford, 1989), The Classical Era
from the 1740s to the End of the 18th
Century (Macmillan, 1989), and, most recently, Mozart's Piano
Concertos: Text, Context, Interpretation (University of Michigan
Press, 1995). A member of the Zentralinstitut der Internationale
Stiftung Mozarteum and the
American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Zaslaw has taught at Cornell
University since 1970.
This is a most substantial book, with a long detailed text, massive bibliography and references, generous illustrations, copious tables, graphs and backup statistics, interesting music examples in the penultimate chapter, full index, and appendices centering on the second half of the 18th century. It will remain a major work on its subject. The Musical Times If you are involved in assembling or conducting period orchestras and can afford this, buy it. It is well written, sensibly arranged and easy to consult ... should be in all music reference libraries. Early Music Review
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