[3] Recently the firm of Belaieff has published Rimsky-Korsakov's symphonic works in miniature score, pocket-size.
[4] In the margin of the MS. a question mark is added here. (Editor's note.)
[5] A. Glazounov has well expressed the various degrees of excellence in scoring, which he divides into three classes: 1. When the orchestra sounds well, playing from sight; magnificent, after a few rehearsals. 2. When effects cannot be brought off except with the greatest care and attention on the part of conductor and players. 3. When the orchestra never sounds well. Evidently the chief aim in orchestration is to obtain the first of these results. (Author's note.)
[6] A short review of these various questions forms the [first chapter] of the book. (Editor's note.)
[7] To give a list of easy three and four-note chords, or to explain the different methods of bowing does not come within the scope of the present book.
[8] Of late years sometimes two tubas are employed, by Glazounov for instance in his Finnish Fantasia. (Editor's note.)
[A] The 7th natural harmonic is everywhere omitted as useless; the same in the horns, the notes 11, 13, 14 and 15.
[B] The b♮ of the octave -1 does not exist on the trombones.
[9] A Russian instrument which, like the balalaïka, is better known abroad. (Translator's note.)
[10] A chromatic harp without pedals has now been invented in France (Lyon's system), on which the most abrupt modulations are possible. (Translator's note.)