CONTENTS
Introduction
1. Orchestral instruments in the seventeenth century
2. Sixteenth century early efforts
3. Seventeeth century. The initial period
4. Seventeeth century. The initial period (continued)
5. Purcell-Scarlatti:The fourt-part string orchestra
6. The period of Bach and Handel
7. Transition: Gluck
8. The period of Haydn and Mozart
9. Orchestral instruments in the nineteenth century
10. Nineteenth century, first quarter, Beethoven-Schubert-Weber-Rossini
11. Nineteenth century, second quqrter. Meyerbeer-Berlioz-Mendelssohn-Glinka
12. The period of Brahms-Tschaikovky
13. The period of Brahms-Tschaikovsky
14. Strauss-Debussy-Elgar
Conclusion
Apendix A
Apendix B
Index
