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Title: Principles of Orchestration
With musical examples drawn from his own works

Author: Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov

Editor: Maximilian Steinberg

Translator: Edward Agate

Release Date: September 30, 2010 [EBook #33900]

Language: English

Character set encoding: ASCII

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Produced by Mark C. Orton, Linda Cantoni, and the Online
Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net. Music
transcribed by Linda Cantoni. Thanks to Alex Guzman for
his assistance in interpreting orchestral notation.

[Transcriber's Notes: This e-book was prepared from a 1964 reprint
published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, which in turn was
prepared from the two-volume 1922 English translation published by
Edition Russe de Musique, Paris.

Volume I contains the text of the work; Volume II contains the musical
examples referred to in Volume I. This plaintext version of the e-book
contains only Volume I and the front matter of Volume II. To see and
hear the musical examples in Volume II, see the HTML version.

The original uses boxed numbers to refer to sections of musical
scores. They are represented here in double square brackets, e.g.,
[[27]], [[B]]. See the footnote at the beginning of Chapter II for the
editor's explanation of the musical examples and the boxed rehearsal
numbers. The use of asterisks is explained in the Editor's Preface.

Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other
apparent errors are noted with a [Transcriber's Note].

The original contains a number of tables of instrument distribution.
Those occurring in the middle of a line are rendered in a single line,
using forward slashes to indicate line breaks. For example, where the
following occurs in the middle of a line, in the original,

Vns I ]
Vns II ]
Vns III] 8

it is rendered in this e-book as

Vns I/Vns II/Vns III] 8.

This e-book uses the octave numbering system to describe the
single-note music examples. Under this system, for example, middle C
is C4, and the scale following would be D4, E4, e