Principles of Orchestration was an attempt to help

was an attempt to help man live piously and devoutly

and premature death — along with the unforgettable story of the beautiful

The myths range in theme from steadfast love to rivalry between warriors to victory over powerful forces

tying practical knots

enhances the text with 12 remarkable full-color plates and scores of other line drawings: decorated initial caps

Principles of Orchestration was an attempt to help"To orchestrate is to create, and this cannot be taught," wrote Nikolay Rimsky Korsakov, the great Russian composer whose genius for brilliant, highly colored orchestration is unsurpassed. But invention, in all art, is closely allied to technique, and technique can be taught. This book, therefore, which differs from most other texts on the subject because of its tremendous wealth of musical examples and its systematic arrangement of material according