The orchestra and its instruments

by Esther Singleton

[87] The name “score” is derived from this scoring. This in other languages is partition (French); partitio (Italian); partitur (German); meaning a collection of parts.

[88] See page [52].

[89] Circles.

[90] Well-tuned; not applying to the instrument’s disposition.

[91] See page [287].

[92] A. J. Hipkins.

[93] A. J. Hipkins.

INDEX

• Acis, [163]
• Acis and Galatea, [77], [81]
• Addison, [187], [188]
• Adrianna, [147]
• Aïda, [283]
• Air-stream (or air-column), [74], [75], [76], [86], [92], [98], [107]
• Alceste, [109]
• Alcyone, [171]
• Alps, [21]
• Amati, Andreas, [25], [59], [64], [138-139]
• Amati, Antonio and Geronimo, [25]
• Amati, Nicolò, [25-26], [27], [64], [178]
• “Amatis, Grand,” [26]
• American taste, [273]
• Anne of Austria, [152], [154]
• Antoniotti, [59]
• Anvil Chorus, [129]
• Anvils, [129], [163]
• Après midi d’un faune, [270], [271-272]
• Arditi, [70]
• Arnould, Sophie, [105]
• Arpa doppia, [144]
• Arpeggios, [41]
• Art of Bowing (Tartini), [44]
• Attack, [42], [162]
• Atys, [164]
• Bach, Johann Sebastian, [57], [62], [104], [111], [185-187], [210], [260], [262], [290], [299]
• Bach, Philipp Emmanuel, [186]
• Ballet-music, [140], [196]
• Baltzar, Thomas, [173], [174], [176]
• Banquet of Dainty Conceits, [136]
• Barberini, Cardinal, [150]
• Barberini Theatre, [150]
• Barret, A. M. R., [85]
• Barrère, George, quoted, [75]
• Bassani, Giovanni Battista, [179]
• Bass-bar, [14], [15]
• Basse de viole, [47], [168], [170]. See [Viola da gamba]
• Basset-horn, [101-102]
• Basson, [95]
• Bassoon, [91-96];
• air-column, [92];
• compass, [92];
• construction, [91];
• keys, [92];
• tone, [92]
• Bassoon, double, [96]
• Bass tuba. See [Tuba]
• Bass viol, [47]. See [Basse de viole] and [Viola da gamba]
• Battery, [5], [264]
• Bavaria, King of, [256]
• Bayreuth, [256]
• Beethoven, [41], [52], [61], [69], [77], [81], [82], [88], [93], [94], [96], [100], [114], [120], [121], [199], [214-232], [244], [262], [290], [299]
• Beethoven as conductor, [220], [227]
• Beethoven, quoted, [196]
• Bells, [130-131]
• Bells of Montsalvat, [131]
• Benda, Franz, [79]
• Benvenuto Cellini, overture, [251]
• Bergonzi, Carlo, [64]
• Berlioz, [52], [78], [83], [90], [114], [117], [243-251], [260], [267], [268], [279-282], [289];
• orchestra of, [247];
• quoted, [42-43], [53], [65], [80-82], [87-88], [89], [99-100], [111], [114], [226]
• Berteau, [60]
• Beyle, Henri Marie. See [Stendhal]
• Birthday Ode, Queen Anne’s, [188]
• Bizet, [117]
• Black Tulip, The, [166]
• Bocan, [154], [155], [156], [157]
• Boccherini, [62]
• Boehm, Theobald, [75], [76]
• Bologna, [24], [179]
• Bombardino, [83]
• Bombardino-Chalumeau Family, [84], [90], [96]
• Bombardo, [83]
• Bossier, violin, [30], [31]
• Bottesini, [70]
• Bourgeois Gentilhomme, Le, [160]
• Bouts, [19], [22]
• Bow, the, [43]
• Bowing, [40-41], [162], [180]
• Brahms, [95], [96], [265]
• Brass instruments, [5], [152], [259], [263-264]
• Brass wind, [5]. See [Brass instruments]
• Brescia, [21], [22], [23], [25], [179]
• Brian Boru, harp of, [284]
• Bridge, [14]
• Brienne, Comte de, quoted, [155]
• Bruyère, La, [165];
• quoted, [166], [167]
• Bucina, [104]
• Bülow, Hans von, [121], [262]
• Burney, quoted, [173], [177], [182], [183], [195], [204-206]
• Buysine, [112]
• Cannabich, [211], [216]
• Cannons, [188], [289]
• Cantus, [49]
• Carillon, [127]
• Carmen, [117]
• Carnaval Romain, [83]
• Carnegie Hall, opening of, [265]
• Carpenter Edward, quoted, [231]
• Casals, Pablo, [61]
• Casse Noisette Suite, [78], [102], [267]
• Castanets, [126], [163]
• Cat’s Fugue, [184]
• Celesta, [128], [267]
• Cellini, Benvenuto, [22]
• Cembalo, [151], [291], [293]
• Cesti, Antonio, [151]
• Chalumeau, [83], [84], [97]
• Chandos, Duke of, [188], [289]
• Chanterelle, [39], [171]
• Charles I, of England, [154]
• Charles II, of England, [173];
• music under, [173-177]
• Charles IX, of France, [59], [244]
• Chaucer, [292]
• Cherubini, [94], [105]
• Chest of viols, [29]
• Childe Harold, [52]
• Chitarone, [137], [140]
• Chopin, [232], [299]
• Chorale, [185]
• Christina, of Sweden, [180]
• Cimbalon, [128]
• Cimbelom, [291]
• Clarinet, [96-101], [195], [210], [236], [241], [258], [264];
• air-column, [98];
• compass, [99];
• registers, [97];
• voice of, [97], [99]
• Clarinet, bass, [101], [102]
• Clarinet, double-bass, [102];
• voice of, [102]
• “Clarinet Symphony,” [100]
• Clarino, [110], [143]
• Clarion, [110], [112]
• Claro, [110], [112]
• Classical music, [232], [255]
• Clavecin, [140], [153], [293], [299]
• Clavicembali, [143], [150]
• Clavicembalo, [293], [296]
• Clavichord, [293], [299]
• Clavicordo, [293]
• Clavicymball, [296]
• Clavicymbalum, [293]
• Clavicymbel, [293]
• Clavicymbolum, [296]
• Clavier, [293]
• Clementi, [299]
• Clemenza di Tito, [102]
• Coerne, quoted, [263-264]
• Collasse, Pascal, [169]
• Colonne, [268]
• Combattimento di Tancrede e Clorinda, [146]
• Concert of lutes, [57]
• Concert of viols, [57], [62]
• Concert-master, [41]
• Concertino, [190]
• Conductor, [6], [42], [135], [146], [274-278];
• Beethoven, [227];
• Corelli, [180-181];
• Handel, [189-191];
• Lully, [162-164];
• Mendelssohn, [242-243];
• Mozart, [212];
• Wagner, [256];
• Weber, [235]
• Consorts (lutes), [173]
• Constantin, [156], [157]
• Coppelia, [82]
• Cor, anglais, [84], [88-89];
• compass, [89];
• tone, [89]
• Cor à piston, [108]
• Cordier, Jacques, [154]
• Corelli, Arcangelo, [43], [60], [178-182];
• conducting of, [180-181]
• Corner blocks, [18-19], [27]
• Cornet, [116], [153]
• Cornet Family, [116]
• Cornu, [104]
• Couac, [73]
• Couched harp, [295]
• Couperin, [273], [290]
• Cousineau, [288]
• Creation, The, [77], [96]
• Cremona, [10], [21], [24-25], [141], [179], [297]
• Cristofori, [298-299]
• Crooks, [107], [108]
• Cruit, [283]
• Crusaders, [122]
• Crwth, [283]
• Cuckoo, [130]
• Cymbals, [124-125]
• Cyrano, [107]
• Damnation of Faust, [83], [117], [246], [251]
• Damrosch, Walter, [107], [121], [264], [269]
• Dance-music, [153], [160], [179], [181], [184], [196]
• Dannreuther, Edward, quoted, [248-249], [259-260]
• Danse Macabre, [41], [128], [130]
• Dante, [143]
• Dante Symphony, [254]
• Debussy, [260], [269-273], [289];
• quoted, [272-273]
• Delibes, [82]
• Denner, J. C., [97]
• Descoteaux, [165-166], [173]
• Devil’s Sonata, [44]
• Diapasons, [138]
• Discant, [18], [47]
• Divertissement, [141]
• Don Giovanni, [51], [69], [93], [100], [114]
• Don Juan, [95]
• Don Quixote Variations, [53], [63], [78], [102], [261]
• Double-bass, [47], [67-71];
• Amati, [70];
• Bergonzi, [70];
• Gasparo di Salò, [70];
• Stradivari, [70];
• strings of, [67]
• Dragonetti, [70], [227]
• Drum, bass, [123];
• sticks, [123];
• side, [122];
• heads, [122];
• playing of, [122];
• roll, [122]
• Duiffoprugcar, G., [48]
• Dulcimer, [291], [292], [293]
• Dumanoir, [157]
• Duport, Jean Louis, [60], [63]
• Dürer, Albrecht, [152]
• Dvořák, [77], [90], [101]
• Egmont, overture, [52], [82]
• “Elector Stainers,” [34]
• Elgar, [53], [95], [121]
• Elijah, [62], [77], [117], [241]
• Embouchure, [73], [75]
• Enfance du Christ, [78], [247], [289]
• Engel, Carl, quoted, [83]
• English horn, [89]
• Enigma, [95]
• Érard, [279], [289]
• Eroica Symphony, [88], [223], [225]
• “Esterhazy,” [198-199]
• Esterhazy, Prince, [197], [252]
• Esther, [192], [289]
• Euryanthe, [236], [237]
• Fagott, [95]
• Fagotto, [95]
• Fancies, [175]
• Fanfares, [104]
• Fantastic Symphony, [250], [254]
• Fasch, C. F., [79]
• “Father of Classical Music,” [183]
• “Father of the Orchestra,” [199]
• “Father of Modern Orchestration,” [246]
• Faust, Symphony, [254]
• f-holes, [12], [18], [20], [30], [31]
• Fidelio, [88]
• Fifth Symphony (Beethoven), [52], [69]
• Fifth Symphony (Tschaikowsky), [95]
• Finck, Henry T., quoted, [254]
• First violin, [41], [42]
• “Flaming-sword” sound-holes, [20], [57]
• “Flowers,” [179]
• Flügel, [293]
• Flute, [73-79], [153], [273];
• air-stream, [74], [75], [76];
• compass, [74];
• construction, [74];
• keys, [74], [75];
• playing of, [74];
• scale, [75];
• voice, [73]
• Flute-players, famous French, [165-168], [173]
• Flutes, [146], [151], [153], [163], [165-167]
• Flutter tongue, [78]
• Flying Dutchman, overture, [109], [256]
• Forsyth, Cecil, quoted, [117]
• Foucard, [156]
• Francesca da Rimini, [101]
• Franchomme, A., [64]
• Franciscello, [60], [183]
• Francisco II, Duke of Modena, [59]
• Frederick the Great, [78]
• Freischütz, [81], [100], [105], [106], [236-237]
• French composers, modern, [270]
• French flute-players, [165-168], [173]
• French horn, [108]
• Frichot, [116]
• Galiano, Alessandro, [64]
• Galiano, Januarius, [64]
• Galilei, quoted, [287]
• Galli, Domenico, [59]
• Gamme La (Marais), [171]
• Gardiner, William, quoted, [300]
• Gasparo di Salò, [21], [22], [23], [25], [33], [48], [50], [71], [135], [138], [141], [179]
• Gatti, Teobaldo di, [168]
• Geminiani, [180], [193];
• quoted, [180]
• George I, of England, [188]
• Gevaert, [101], [119]
• Giraldus, quoted, [284-285]
• Gladstone, quoted, [16]
• Glockenspiel, [127], [131]
• Gluck, [69], [78], [82], [88], [94], [100], [106], [193-196], [244]
• Golden Legend, [149]
• Gonzaga, Francesco di, [142]
• Gossec, [105]
• Götterdämmerung, Die, [105], [115]
• Grande Mademoiselle, La, [159-160]
• Gravicembalo, [183], [293], [295], [297]
• Great Fire of London, [295]
• Grieg, [265]
• Grove, Sir George, quoted, [228], [230]
• Guarneri, [26], [32]
• Guillaume Tell. See [William Tell]
• Guitar-fiddle, [17]
• Habeneck, [239], [268]
• Hackbrett, [291]
• Hadden, J. Cuthbert, quoted, [206]
• Hammer, [294], [299]
• Handel, [62], [77], [96], [111], [127], [187-193], [210], [289], [290];
• caricature of, [191];
• conductor, [189-191]
• Hänsel and Gretel, [95], [130]
• Harmonics, [39], [64], [69], [113]
• Harold Symphony (Harold in Italy), [52], [250]
• Harp, [5-6], [195], [247], [255], [260], [264], [279-289]
• Harp, Egyptian, [283];
• English, [287];
• Irish, [283];
• mediæval, [288];
• Scottish, [286];
• Welsh, [286]
• Harpers, Irish, [284-285];
• Welsh, [285]
• Harps, [260]
• Harpsichord, [183], [186], [195], [293], [295], [296], [297-298]
• Harpsicordo, [293]
• Haweis, quoted, [15], [26], [28], [34-36]
• Haydn, [77], [88], [93], [96], [130], [183], [196-207], [210], [217], [218], [262]
• Hebrides, overture, [96], [101]
• Heine, quoted, [245]
• Heinrich, Carl, quoted, [111]
• Heldenleben, [90], [95]
• Hellier violin, [30]
• Henrietta Maria, [154]
• Henry VIII, [122], [295]
• Heron-Allen, quoted, [30-32]
• Horn, [103-110];
• air-stream, [107];
• bell, [103], [107];
• construction, [107];
• crooks, [107];
• keys, [107];
• playing of, [107-108];
• tone, [108]
• Horns, [104], [107], [109], [163], [182], [191], [236], [259], [263];
• modified, [117]
• Huguenots Les, [82], [130]
• Hummel, [299]
• Humperdinck, [95], [130]
• Huneker, James G., quoted, [260-261]
• Hungarian Rhapsodie, No. 2, [77];
• Rhapsodies, [254], [290]
• Hurdy-gurdy, [17]
• Improvisation (Beethoven’s), [216]
• Improvisation (Handel’s), [189]
• Incoronazione di Poppea, [146]
• Ingegneri, Marc Antonio, [142]
• Instruments, Sixteenth-century, [136-139]
• Interludes, instrumental, [140]
• Intonation, [38]
• Iphigénie en Aulide, [87];
• en Tauride, [80], [88]
• Ireland, arms of, [287]
• Isis, [163], [169]
• Israel in Egypt, [188]
• Istromento di porco, [292]
• Jacks, [294]
• Jahn, quoted, [212]
• Jingles, [125]
• Joachim, quoted, [36-37]
• Joseph del Gesù, [32-33]
• Jubilee, Saint-Saëns, [269]
• Kettledrums, [120-122], [191], [197], [200];
• compass, [121];
• sticks, [121];
• tuning, [121]
• “King, The” (violoncello), [60]
• Kirchmann, [298]
• Kreisler, Fritz, [30]
• La Bas, [168]
• Labyrinth (Marais), [171]
• La Londe, [172]
• Lalouette, Jean François, [169]
• Lamoureux, [268]
• Landi, Stefano, [149]
• Lanzetti, [59]
• Lavignac, Albert, [270];
• quoted, [42], [54], [65], [73], [84], [89], [92], [97], [98], [108], [110], [113], [130], [257-258]
• Lazarin, [156]
• Leclerc, Guy, [169]
• Léger, [156]
• Lesueur, [249]
• Lichnowsky, Prince, [218], [220]
• Liebich, Mrs. F., quoted, [271-272]
• Liszt, [41], [60], [77], [102], [124], [243], [251-255], [260], [267], [290], [299], [301];
• quoted, [299-300]
• Lobkowitz, Prince, [223]
• Local coloring, [237]
• Lodoiska, [105]
• Lohengrin, [253], [256]
• Lombardy, [21], [49], [142], [179]
• “Long Strads,” [31]
• Louis XIII, [154]
• Louis XIV, [155];
• age of, [158];
• music of, [160]
• Lulli. See [Lully]
• Lully, Jean Baptiste, [158-164], [174], [195], [269], [277], [278]
• Lute, [168]
• Lute, bass, [140];
• tenor, [137]
• Lutes, [29], [57], [58], [137], [140]
• Luther, Martin, [185]
• Lyre, [140]
• Madrigals, [136], [142]
• Maestro di Capella, [142], [147], [148]
• Maggini, Giovanni Paolo, [21], [23-24], [64], [141], [179]
• Magic flute, [77], [114], [127]
• Manfred, overture, [114]
• Mantua, Duke of, [141]
• Marais, Marin, [165], [169-172]
• Marchand, Jean Baptiste, [168]
• Marche Slave, [95]
• Marie Antoinette, [194]
• Marly, [155], [156]
• Martini, Padre, quoted, [193]
• Maximilian, Triumph of, [152]
• Mazarin, Cardinal, [152], [157]
• Mazeppa, [41], [102]
• Mazzocchi, Vergilio, [148];
• school of, [148-149]
• Medea, [94]
• Medici, Ferdinand de’, [298]
• Meistersinger, Die, [62], [70], [77], [109], [127], [257], [264]
• Melodic instruments, [85], [86], [106]
• Melusine, [101], [241]
• Mendelssohn, [6], [62], [77], [94], [96], [101], [105], [240-243];
• conducting, [242-243]
• Mersenne, quoted, [154], [156], [292]
• Messiah (Handel’s), [188], [191]
• “Messiah,” violin, [30], [32]
• Metsu, [55]
• Meyerbeer, [82], [90], [130], [289]
• Midsummer Night’s Dream (Mendelssohn’s), [6-8], [77], [95], [105], [117], [240], [241]
• Military Symphony, [93]
• Modern Music Master, [293]
• Molière, [160]
• Monodic music, [140]
• Monteverde, Claudio, [141-148], [295]
• Montpensier, Mademoiselle de, [159-160]
• Mozart, Leopold, [207]
• Mozart, Wolfgang Amadeus, [51], [69], [77], [93], [100], [105], [114], [127], [199], [207-214], [262], [267], [289], [290]
• Mozartiana, [267]
• “Music of the Future,” [243], [253], [255]
• Music of the Renaissance, [48], [152], [185]
• Music of the Seventeenth Century, [58]
• “Musicians’ musician,” [186]
• Musurgia, [292]
• Naggareh, [122]
• “Nakers,” [122]
• Newman, Ernest, quoted, [244-245], [246-247], [265]
• New World Symphony, [77], [90], [101]
• Nibelungen Ring, [256], [259]
• Ninth Symphony, [52], [69], [88], [94], [96], [114], [120], [121]
• Nuance, [192]
• Nut Cracker Suite, [78], [102], [267]
• Oberon, [101], [106], [236], [237]
• Oboe, [83-88], [89], [189];
• air-column, [85];
• compass, [86];
• construction, [85];
• keys, [87];
• playing of, [86];
• reed, [86];
• scale, [86];
• voice, [84]
• Oboe d’amore, [84], [186], [264]
• Oboe di caccia, [84], [90], [186]
• Ode to Joy, [70]
• Ole Bull, [22], [29]
• “Olifant,” [103]
• Opera, dawn of, [139]
• Opera, Italian, [139], [142-152]
• Operas, Gluck’s, [196];
• Handel’s, [188]
• Ophicleide, [116], [117], [247]
• Oratorios, Handel’s, [188]
• Orchestra, [3-8], [42], [65], [68];
• Bach, [192], [209];
• Beethoven, [230];
• Berlioz, [247];
• Cesti, [151];
• Corelli, [180];
• Dresden, [234], [235], [256];
• Eleventh-century, [273];
• French, [153];
• Gluck, [194];
• Handel, [189], [192], [209];
• Haydn, [199], [200], [223];
• Landi, [149-150];
• Louis XIV, [155];
• Lully, [160], [161-164], [172];
• Mannheim, [210];
• Monteverde, [143-144];
• Mozart, [223], [229];
• Scarlatti, [183];
• Venetian, [150];
• Wagner, [258]
• Orchestral palette, [209-210]
• Orchestral solos, [186]
• Orchestration, Debussy, [270-271];
• Liszt, [255];
• Strauss, [263-264];
• Tschaikowsky, [267];
• Wagner, [257-258]
• Orfeo, Gluck, [69], [78], [88], [94], [196];
• Monteverde, [141-146]
• Organ, [143], [151], [186], [199]
• Organists, German, [185]
• Otello, [70], [82]
• Ottoboni, Cardinal, [180]
• Ouvertures (Lully), [174]
• Over-blowing, [76], [87], [92], [108]
• Paganini, [33], [45], [249], [250], [252]
• “Paganini of the ’cello,” [61]
• Paliarino, [298]
• Papa Haydn, [199]
• Parsifal, [131]
• Pasdeloup, [268]
• Pastoral Symphony, [77], [82], [88], [101], [226]
• Pathetic Symphony, [53], [95]
• Pelleas et Mélisande, [270]
• Pepys, quoted, [295]
• Percussion instruments, [5], [119-131]
• “Petits Violons,” [160], [172]
• Petrushka, [301]
• Philbert, [167-168], [173]
• Piatti, Alfredo, [61], [63]
• Pianoforte, [290-301]
• Pianoforte Concerto in E-flat (Liszt), [124]
• Pianoforte recital, first, [299]
• Piccini, [194], [197]
• Piccolo, [79-83]
• Piffero pastorale, [83]
• Pills to Purge Melancholy, [177]
• Pitch, definite, [119];
• indefinite, [119]
• Pizzicato, [41]
• Plague, the, [23], [147]
• Platel, N. J., [61]
• Plectrum, [291], [292], [294]
• Polyphonic Music, [140], [142]
• Pommers, [83]
• Pomo d’oro, Il, [151]
• Pomone, [93]
• Pomp and Circumstance, [95]
• Portamento, [40]
• Pourceaugnac, [160]
• Preciosa, [160], [237]
• Princesse d’Élide, La, [163]
• “Prison Josephs,” [33]
• Provence, [17]
• Psaltérion, [273], [291], [292]
• Psaltery, [291], [292], [293], [295]
• Purfling, [13], [23]
• Quantz, [78]
• Quartet, string, [58], [62]
• Quartet, woodwind, [83]
• Queen Anne, court of, [187-188]
• Queen Mab Scherzo, [246]
• Quill, [294], [297]
• Quinault, [160]
• Quintons, [139]
• Raguenet, Abbé, quoted, [173]
• Rameau, [184], [195], [269], [273]
• Ranz des Vaches, [90]
• Rasoumoffsky Quartet, [218]
• Rattle, [129]
• Reed, [72], [86];
• double, [85], [89];
• single, [97]
• Reed family, [72]
• Regale, [143]
• Regibo, [116]
• Renaissance, the, [48], [152], [185], [277];
• French, [269];
• instruments, [136-139], [143-144];
• music, [136-152]
• René, King, [269]
• Requiem (Mozart’s), [93], [102]
• Revolution of 1830, [244], [269]
• Rheingold Das, [115], [259], [289]
• Richard the Second, [135]
• Richelieu, Cardinal de, [154-155]
• Riddle, [48]
• Ride of the Walküre, [82]
• Rienzi, [117], [256]
• Ries, [216], [220]
• Rinaldo, [81]
• Ripienist, [190]
• Robert le Diable, [82-90], [289]
• Rolland, Romain, quoted, [162], [163], [190], [192-193], [196]
• Romantic music, [232]
• Romantic movement, [244], [252]
• Romaunt of the Rose, [288]
• Rome, opera in, [150]
• Roméo et Juliette, Symphony, [246], [250]
• Rospigliosi, Giulio, [149]
• Rossini, [62], [90], [130]
• Rouet d’Omphale, [268]
• Rubinstein, Anton, [266];
• quoted, [266]
• Rubinstein, Nicholas, [266]
• Ruckers, [297-298]
• Ruy Blas, overture, [94]
• Sacchini, [100]
• Sackbut, [112], [116]
• S. Alessio, [149]
• St. Cecilia, picture of, [19], [20]
• Saint Paul, [62]
• Saint-Saëns, [41], [126], [128], [130], [268-269], [301]
• Salieri, [227], [238], [252]
• Salterio, [291]
• Samson, [188]
• Samson et Dalila, [126]
• Sarasate, [269]
• Saul, [127], [188]
• Savoyard in Paris, Little, [17]
• Scarlatti, Alessandro, [62], [180], [182-183], [187];
• Domenico, [183-184], [293], [297]
• Schalmei, [83]
• Schalmey, [84], [91]
• Schalmey-Pommer Family, [90], [91]
• Schubert, [88], [105], [114], [239-240]
• Schumann, [114], [232], [233]
• Schuppanzigh Quartet, [218]
• Score, [274-275]
• Scotch Symphony, [94]
• Seasons, The, [88]
• Semele, [191]
• Serpent, the, [116]
• Servais, A. F., [61], [63]
• Shakespeare, [56], [58], [134-5]
• Shawm, [83], [84]
• Sheridan, [191]
• Siegfried, [109], [115], [127]
• Siegfried Idyll, [109]
• Simonelli, Matteo, [179]
• Sinfonia Domestica, [131]
• Snares, [122]
• Sordino, [40]
• Sound-holes, [12], [18], [20], [22], [23], [27], [30], [31], [57]
• Sound-post, [14], [15]
• Speaker-keys, [85]
• Spinet, [293], [294-295], [299]
• Spinetta traversa, [294]
• Spinetti, Giovanni, [294]
• Spitta, Dr., quoted, [233], [237]
• Spohr, [289]
• Spontini, [81]
• Stabat Mater (Rossini), [94]
• Stainer, Jacob, [34]
• Stamford, Charles Villiers, quoted, [70]
• Stamitz, [211]
• Steele, [187], [188]
• Stendhal, quoted, [200-204], [208]
• Stone, W. H., quoted, [93], [94]
• Stradivari, Antonio, [15], [16], [26-32], [63], [178], [250];
• house of, [28]
• “Stradivari of the Bow,” [43]
• Strauss, Richard, [41], [53], [63], [78], [82], [90], [95], [102], [109], [128], [129], [131], [260], [289];
• quoted, [262]
• Stravinsky, [301]
• String-quartet, [58], [62]
• Strings, [4], [152], [153]
• Suites (Bach), [187]
• Surprise Symphony, [200]
• Symphonic Poems (Liszt), [254];
• Tschaikowsky, [266]
• Symphonie Fantastique, [90].
• See [Symphony]
• Symphonie Pathetique, [267]
• “Symphonies,” [140], [144], [168]
• Symphonies (Haydn), [202-204];
• Mozart, [208];
• Schubert, [239]
• Symphony (Beethoven), First, [93], [223];
• Second, [94], [101], [220];
• Eighth, [94], [227], [242];
• Fifth, [96];
• Fourth, [94], [224];
• Ninth, [94], [96], [228];
• Third (Eroica) 88, [223], [225];
• Seventh, [100], [120], [227];
• Sixth (Pastoral), [77], [82], [88], [101], [226]
• Symphony in C (Saint-Saëns), [301]
• Symphony in C-major (Schubert), [88], [105], [114], [239]
• Symphony in C-minor (Brahms), [95], [96]
• Symphony, Mozart’s first, [210]
• Symphony in E-flat (Mozart), [100]
• Symphony in F-minor (Tschaikowsky), [41]
• Symphony Society of New York, [273]
• Tabel, [298]
• Tambour de Basque, [126], [163]
• Tambourin, [126]
• Tambourine, [125-126]
• Tannhäuser, [53], [109], [126], [253]
• Tartini, [44], [60]
• Temperament, [186]
• Tennyson, quoted, [104]
• Tenor, [49]
• Tenor viol, [49], [67]
• Ter Borch, [55]
• Theorbo, [137], [153]
• Till Eulenspiegel, [83], [95], [110], [129]
• Tone, search for, [178]
• Tone-color, [209-210]
• Tonguing, [75], [86]
• Touch, [290]
• Tourte, François, [43], [44-46]
• Toy Symphony, [130]
• “Trackers,” [85]
• “Tragic Symphony,” [239]
• Transposing instrument, [89]
• Treatise on Instrumentation (Berlioz), [249]
• Treble, [18], [47]
• Triangle, [124]
• Triébert, [85]
• Tristan and Isolde, [63], [90], [109], [257], [263]
• Triumph of Death, [292]
• Trombone, [112-115], [263];
• bell, [112];
• compass, [113];
• harmonics, [113];
• position, [112];
• slide, [112], [113];
• tone, [113]
• Troubadours, [17], [18]
• Trouvères, [269]
• Trovatore, Il, [129], [130]
• Trumpet, [110-112];
• keys, [111];
• voice, [110]
• Tschaikowsky, [41], [53], [78], [95], [101], [128], [260], [264-267]
• Tschudi, [298];
• quoted, [267]
• Tuba, bass, [115], [247], [267]
• Tubas, [117-118], [258], [264]
• “Tubular Chimes,” [131]
• Tuileries, [159]
• Tulip mania, [165-166]
• Twelfth Night, quoted, [56], [58]
• “Twenty-four Violins of the King,” [154-160], [169]
• Twenty-four Violins (Charles II), [173-174], [175-177]
• Tympanon, [291]
• Tyrol, [21], [34], [48]
• Unfinished Symphony, [239]
• Urfey, Thomas d’, quoted, [177]
• Variations (Elgar), [121]
• Venice, opera in, [150]
• Verdi, [70], [82], [130], [283]
• Verdier, [168]
• Versailles, [155], [156]
• Vibrato, [154]
• Vielle, [17], [18], [43], [273]
• Vienna, opera in, [151]
• Viol, Bass, [171]
• Viol Family, [47], [55], [58], [67], [68], [139]
• Viol, tenor, [49], [67], [173]
• Viola, [47-54], [63], [67], [70], [236], [250];
• Berlioz, quoted, [53];
• Gasparo di Salò, [50];
• Lavignac, quoted, [54];
• Maggini, [50];
• strings, [47];
• tone, [54]
• Viola d’amore, [20], [47], [57], [58], [186]
• Viola da braccio, [47], [67], [138]
• Viola da gamba, [47], [55], [56-58], [59], [67], [136], [138], [170], [186]
• Viola da spalla, [138]
• Viole, [17], [43]
• Violin, [9-43], [49], [57], [58], [67], [146], [153], [173-176], [178], [186], [187];
• age of, [16], [21];
• ancestry, [17];
• bass-bar, [14], [15];
• belly, [12];
• birthplace, [21];
• bouts, [19], [21];
• bridge, [14];
• charm of, [9-10];
• construction, [13-14];
• corner-blocks, [18-19], [27];
• f-holes, [12], [18], [20], [30], [31];
• Lavignac, quoted, [42];
• model, [11];
• neck, [16];
• nervous system, [15];
• parts of, [13];
• positions, [38];
• purfling, [13], [23];
• ribs, [12];
• scroll, [11], [16];
• soul of the, [15];
• sound-holes, [12], [18], [20], [22], [23], [27], [30], [31], [57];
• sound-post, [14], [15];
• tension, [15];
• tongue of the, [14];
• varnish, [13], [22], [23], [25], [26], [27], [30], [31-32], [35];
• voice, [10];
• waist, [18];
• wood, [13], [23], [25], [34-35]
• Violin Family, [178]
• Violin, the Little, [49]
• Violino, [48], [138], [139]
• Violino piccolo, [49]
• Violins, Amati, [25-26];
• Bergonzi, [33];
• Berlioz, quoted, [42-43];
• Gasparo di Salò, [22];
• Guarneri, [26], [32-23];
• Maggini, [23-24];
• Stainer, [34];
• Stradivari, [30-32]
• Violoncello, [55-66], [67], [69], [146], [175], [183], [191], [236], [242];
• Berlioz, quoted, [65-66];
• Lavignac, quoted, [65];
• strings, [64]
• Violone, [47], [68]
• Viols, [58], [138-139], [141], [146], [156], [173], [175-176];
• chest of, [29];
• concert of, [62];
• consort of, [57], [62]
• Viotti, [44], [60]
• Virginal, [293], [295]
• Vizé, [167]
• Vogler, Abbé, [234]
• Voltaire, [61]
• Wagner, [52-53], [62], [70], [77], [82], [95], [101], [109], [115], [126], [127], [129], [147], [256-260], [261], [262], [264], [265], [278], [289];
• conductor, [256];
• quoted, [248], [261]
• Walküre, Die, [127], [289]
• Weber, Carl Maria von, [81], [94], [100-101], [105], [106], [232-238], [244];
• conductor, [235];
• quoted, [224]
• Widor, quoted, [124]
• Wieprecht, W. F., [115]
• Wilhelmj, [256]
• William Tell, overture, [62], [90], [130]
• Wind instruments, [141], [152]
• Wind-machine, [129]
• Wodehouse, A. W., quoted, [232]
• “Wolf,” the, [50]
• Wood, Anthony, quoted, [175-177]
• Woodwind, [4-5], [72-102], [184], [189], [258]
• Xylophone, [128]
• Zimbalist, Efrem, [23-24]
• Zinke, [115]