The Orchestra
Subtitle: Origins and Transformations
Publisher: Scribners
Published: 1986
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 672
ISBN-13: 9780684180687
Subjects: Instrumental Ensembles And Their Music; Orchestra
First sentence: The elements that compose what is currently called the "orchestra" coalesced about the middle of the eighteenth century into a complex yet remarkably stable tradition.