The Birth of the Orchestra
Subtitle: History of an Institution, 1650-1815
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: August 5, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 656
ISBN-13: 9780195189551
First sentence: The story of Orpheus has provided the subject for operas, ballets, tone poems, and other musical works, beginning with Poliziano's Orfeo, produced in Mantua in 1480, and continuing to the present.