Book contents
- The Orchestral Revolution
- The Orchestral Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Musical examples
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: instruments and aesthetics
- 1 Lessons at the ocular harpsichord
- 2 The idea of timbre
- 3 Haydn, orchestration, and re-orchestration
- 4 The republic of sound
- 5 The real museum of musical works
- 6 Abuses of the orchestra
- Epilogue: orchestral alchemy
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - The republic of sound
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 February 2013
- The Orchestral Revolution
- The Orchestral Revolution
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Figures
- Musical examples
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: instruments and aesthetics
- 1 Lessons at the ocular harpsichord
- 2 The idea of timbre
- 3 Haydn, orchestration, and re-orchestration
- 4 The republic of sound
- 5 The real museum of musical works
- 6 Abuses of the orchestra
- Epilogue: orchestral alchemy
- Bibliography
- Index
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- The Orchestral RevolutionHaydn and the Technologies of Timbre, pp. 136 - 179Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013