The Orchestra and Its Instruments (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1917. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... chapter viii the orchestra Tbe Orcbestra as an instrument; instruments of tbe Sixteenth Century, --Cbitaroni, tbeorbo, lutes; Claudio Monteverde (1567-1643); Marc Antonio Ingegneri; Orcbestra of Orfeo; Cbitaroni; ii Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda; Incoronazione di Poppea; Adrianna; Vergilio Mazzocchi (ijqj1646), and bis music school; Stefano Landi; Orcbestras in Rome; Orcbestras in Venice; Antonio Cesti and bis opera, " ii Pomo a" Oro"; Cardinal Mazarin; growing popularity of tbe violin; tbe first French Orcbestra--lie Twenty-Jour Violins of tbe King; Bocan's playing; anecdote of Cardinal Ricbelieu; Louis xiv and bis magnificence; Twenty-four Violins of tbe King; amateur orcbestras; instrumental musicians; Jean Baptiste Lully (1632-1687); La Grande Mademoiselle; tbe "Petits Violons"; Lully and Moliire; deatb of Lully; Lully, tbe first real conductor; Lully's Orcbestra; Descoteaux, tbe famous fluteplayer and tulip-fancier; Pbilbert; quotation from La Bruyere; La Bos, tbe bassoon-player; Verdier; Jean Baptiste Marchand, tbe lute-player; Teobaldo di Gatti, tbe basse de violc; Jean Francois Lalouette; Pascal Collasse; Marin Marais; La Londe, tbe violinist; pay-roll of Lully's men; Orcbestra of Cbarles ii of England; Thomas Baltzar of Lubeck; music in England in tbe Seventeenth Century; quotation from Antbony Wood; quotation from Dr. Bwmey; Corelli; Amati and Stradivari; development of tbe violin; Giovanni Baptista Bassani; Corelli's great vogue; Geminiani's estimate of Corelli; Corelli's Orcbestra and conducting; Corelli's compositions and tbeir influence on violinplaying; Alessandro Scarlatti, "tbe Fatber of Classical Music"; Francischello's violoncello-playing; importance of strings in Scarlatti's compositions; Domenico Scarlatti, originator of tbe Sonata fo...