STRADIVARIUS Editions – Sheet music score, original repertoire and arrangements for all instruments, piano accompaniments, free downloads and much more

LIBRARY

AUTHORS

ERARD Pierre

AARDENBERG Abraham van

ABBOTT Lemuel Francis

ABEL Josef

ADLER Salomon

AERNINCK Hendrik

AERTTINGER Karl August

ALBENIZ Isaac

ALDEGREVER Heinrich

ALEXANDRE Père & Fils

ALLAUX Jean

ALPHEN Johann Eusebius

AMATI Andrea

ANCHER Michael Peter

ANONYMOUS

ANQUETIN Louis

APPIANI Andrea

APPLETON Thomas

ARMSTEAD-JOHSON Helen

ARNOULT Nicolas

Arthur Livingston N.Y.

ASTE Jean Hilaire "Halary

ATGET Eugène

AUTISSIER Louis-Marie

AUTREAU Jacques

AVED Jacques

AVED Joseph

AXSEN Ahlert Gerhard

BABUREN Dirck van

BACIGALUPO Rosa

BACKOFEN Johann Georg Heinrich

BAERENTZEN Emil

BAERMANN Carl

BARDUA Caroline

BARTOLI Cecilia

BASSANO Francesco

BATONI Pompeo

BAUDOUIN C.

BEALE F. & Co.

BEAUBRUN Charles

BELLANGE Hippolyte

BELLEI Gaetano

BELLOTTO Pietro

BENLLIURE y Gil José

BERGLER the younger Joseph

BERLIOZ Hector

BERNIGEROTH Martin Friedrich

BERR Friedrich

BERTELLI Francesco

BEUKERS Willem

BEVEREN Charles van

BEYER Adam

BIARD François-Auguste

BIGARI Vittorio Maria

BIJLERT Jan Harmensz van

BILIVERT Giovanni

BILLO R.

BLANCHET Louis-Gabriel

BLANCHET Thomas

BLASIUS (Matthieu) Frédéric

BLATT Franz Thaddäus

BLES David

BLOEMAERT Abraham

BOEKHOUT Thomas Coenrat

BOILLY Louis-Léopold

BOLDINI Giovanni

BONNART Nicolas

BORDE Jean-Benjamin de la

BORKENS Philip

BORMANN Carl Gottlob

BORRONI Paolo

BORSARI Pietro

BOSSE Abraham

BOUCHER François

BOUCHOT Frédéric

BOULOGNE Valentin de

BOURDON Sébastien

BOWNESS William

BRADLEY John

BRASCH Carl

BRAY Salomon de

BREBIETTE Pierre

BREDA Carl Frederik von Breda

BRETONNIERE Victor

BRIGIDE Vincent

BRIOULLOV Karl

BROD Henri

BROWN Mather

BRUBECK Dave

BRUCE James

BRUGGHEN Hendrick ter

BRYMER Jack

BUFFET Louis Auguste

BUNDY Horace

BUNTEBART Gabriel & SIEVERS Christopher

BURNEY Edward Francis

BURRINI Giovanni Antonio

BUSCH Wilhelm

BUTEUX Claude François

BUYTEWECH Willem Pieterz

BÜHNER & KELLER

C.F. MARTIN & Co.

CABART à Paris

CALACE Raffaele

CALLAS Maria

CALLOT Jacques

CALOW William

CAMPI Bernardino

CAMPI Giulio

CAMPI Vincenzo

CAMUS Pierre François

CANTARINI Simone

CARAVAGGIO Michelangelo Merisi

CARBONI Giovanni Bernardo

CARCO Francis

CARIANI Giovanni

CARJAT Etienne

CARMONTELLE Louis Carrogis

CARNAUD Jean

CARRACI Annibale

CARRAFA Juan

CARRIERA Rosalba Carriera

CARRIS Johann Wilhelm

CASSATT Mary

CAVALLERI Ferdinando

CAVALLINO Bernardo

CEDERSTROM Thure Nikolaus von

CELLIER Anne-Marie

CELLIER Tipaporn

CERUTI Giacomo

CERVENY Vaclav Frantisek

CESI Bartolomeo

CHALON Alfred Edward

CHANOT François

CHARDIN Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin

CHAVET Victor Joseph

CHIEWITZ Elis

CHINNERY George

CHOPIN Fryderyk

CHRISTINEK Carl-Ludwig

CIOR Pierre Charles

CIPPER Giacomo Francesco

CLAESZ Pieter

CLERC Pierre Thomas le

CLOSTERMAN John

COCCAPANI Sigismondo

COLLIER Edwaert

COLLIER Thomas

COLLIN

COLSON Jean François Gilles

CONN C.G.

CONNER Charles

COOPER John

COQUES Gonzales

CORBINEAU Charles-Auguste

CORNET

CORNETTE Victor

COROT Jean Baptiste Camille

COSTA Giovanni Battista

COSTER Adam de

COUCHET Petrus Johannes

COURTIN Jacques-Francois

COURTOIS & MILLE

COUSINEAU Père & Fils

COUWENBERG Christiaen van

CRISTOFORI Bartolomeo

CRONE Gottlieb

CRONE Johann August

CROWELL William

CRUIKSHANK George

CUYP Aelbert

CUYPERS Johannes Theodorus

DADD Richard

DANCE George

DANCE Nathaniel

DANDINI Cesare

DARET Jean

DAUMIER Honoré

DAVID Jacques-Louis

DE PASSE Simon

DECAISNE Henri

DEGAS Edgar

DELACROIX Eugène

DELAMOTTE George Orleans

DELESTRES Caroline

DEMAR Sébastien

DENNER Balthasar

DENNER Johann Christoph

DENNEULIN Jules

DESBOUTIN Marcellin Gilbert

DESCOURS Michel Hubert

DESMADRYL Narcisse Edmond Joseph

DEUCHAR David

DEURER Peter Ferdinand

DEVILLERS Georges

DIDEROT Denis

DIDEROT Denis & D'ALEMBERT Jean Le Rond

DIGHTON Robert

DIXON John

DOHNANYI Ernö

DOLNET-LEFEVRE

DOM François Lamathe Bédos de Celles de Salelles

DOMENY Louis Joseph

DOU Gerrit

DRAGONETTI Domenico

DROUAIS Francois-Hubert

DUCREUX Rose-Adelaïde

DUJARDIN Karel

DUPEYRAT Elie

DUPLESSIS Joseph

DUPONT-WATTEAU François Léonard

DURER Albrecht

DUSART Cornelis

DUYFHUYSEN Pieter Jacobsz

EAKINS Thomas

EECKHOUT Jacques Joseph

EGAN John

EHE Wolf Magnus

EICHHOLTZ Jacob

EISENMENGER August

EMBACH & Co Ludwig

EMBERGHER Luigi

EMEDENSIS Johannis

ENGEL

ENGELBRECHT Martin

ENGELEN Gummarus van

ERARD Frères

ERARD Freres & Co

ERTEL Giacomo (Jacob)

ESPLUGAS Antonio

ESPOSITO Giosue

FABER the Younger John

FABRITIUS Pieter Leonardus

FAGNANI Giuseppe

FALAT Julian

FAVILLA Bros.

FERRANTI Lodoïs

FERRARI Gaudenzio

FISHER-DIESKAU Dietrich

FLINCK Govert

FLIPART Charles Joseph Flipart

FLORIS Frans

FORTE Gaetano

FOX George

FRAGONARD Jean Honoré

FRANCK

FRANCO Giacomo

FRANGIPANE Niccolò

FRAPPA José Claude

FREDOU Jean Martial

FRIAS Joseph de

FRIEDLANDER Adolph

GABBIANI Anton Domenico

GAHN Johann Benedikt

GAINSBOROUGH Thomas

GAMBARO Giovanni

GAMELIN Jacques-François

GARCIA Y RODRIGUEZ Manuel

GARION

GARNIER Michel

GEBROEDERS MÜLLER

GENTILESCHI Artemisia

GENTILESCHI Francesco

GENTILESCHI Orazio

GERHARD Johann Friedrich

GERICAULT Théodore

GEROME Jean-Léon

GESTEL Leo

GETZ Stan

GEVAERT François-Auguste

GHERARDI Carlo

GHEYN Jacob de

GHEZZI Pier Leone

GIBSON Mandolin-Guitar Manufacturing Co., Ltd

GILL André

GILLRAY James

GIROD DE VIENNEY DE TREMONT Louis Philippe Joseph

GIRODET de ROUCY-TRIOSON Anne-Louis Girodet

GODOWSKY Leopold

GOEJE Pieter de

GOLDE Carl Theodor

GOLE Jacob

GOMEZ CROS Antonio

GONZALES Eva

GORP Henri-Nicolas Van

GOULD Glenn

GOULDING & Co

GRANCINO Giovanni

GREBBER Pieter Fransz de

GREENWAY Henry

GRENSER Johann Heinrich Wilhelm

GREUZE Jean-Baptiste

GRIMOU Alexis

GRIS Juan

GROOTH Georg Christoph

GROUWELS Lodewijck

GRUNDMANN Jakob Friedrich

GUARRACINO Onofrio Antonio

GUERIN

GUILLIE Sébastien

GUIRAUD Ernest

GUTTENBRUNN Ludwig

HAAG Carl

HAAS Johann Wilhelm

HAID Johann Jacobus & HAID Johann Elias

HAID Johann Lorenz

HAID Johann Philipp

HAKA Richard

HALS Dirk

HALS Frans

HALS Harmen

HANFSTAENGL Franz Seraph

HANKEN Gerhard & zoon

HARDY Thomas

HARMONY Co.

HASSE Johann Adolf

HAU Woldemar

HAUSLAIB Lorenz

HAUSSMANN Elias-Gottlob

HAYLLAR James

HAYNES John William

HAYTER Sir George

HECKEL

HECKER Franz

HEERDE Albertus van

HEINTZE Johann Gottfried

HELL Johan van

HELST Bartholomeus van der

HEMSING Bernard

HENNESSY William John

HENSEL Wilhelm

HESS Hieronymus

HILLERSTROEM Pehr

HILLINGFORD Robert Alexander

HINES Lewis Wickes

HOELPERL Antonin

HOFMANN Ferdinand

HOGARTH William

HOLTZAPFFEL Jean Daniel

HOMER Winslow

HONTHORST Gerrit Van

HOOCH Pieter Hendricksz de

HOOR Jordanus

HOREMANS Peter Jacob

HORN Hijd van den

HOROWITZ Vladimir

HORST Gerard van der

HOTTETERRE Jacques-Martin

HOWARD Hugh

HOWE Elias

HUBBARD Van Bienne

HUILLIOT Pierre Nicolas

HYRE Laurent de la

INGRES Jean-Auguste Dominique

ISAACSZ Pieter

ISRAELS Isaac

JACOBS Hendrik

JACOBSZ Lambert

JAGER Frederik de

JAILLARD "BRESSAN" Peter

JANINET Jean-François

JEANTET François

JEAURAT de BERTRY Nicols Henri

JEHRING August

JOHNSON James

JONGH Ludolf de

JORDAENS Jakob

JUDITH Leyster

KAEPPELIN & Cie Brulon

KAMPER Godaert

KANDINSKY Wassily

KANN Henrik

KEENE Charles

KELLNER Franz

KEMPEN Johannes Mattheus van

KERN Hermann Armin

KEY Thomas

KIEL Leon Charles von

KINTZING Christian

KLOSE Hyacinthe Eleonore

KNELLER Gottfried

KNIKKER Johannes van de

KNOCHENHAUER August Friedrich Andreas

KNOLLER Martin

KOCH Stephan

KOCHENDORFER A. F.

KOECHLIN Charles

KOELLA Johannes

KOENIG Franz Niklaus

KOESTLER Alois

KOHLER John Augustus

KOKULAR Aleksander

KOSTER Jo

KRAFFT Barbara

KRIEHUBER Joseph

KRUEGER Franz

KRUSEMAN Cornelis

KRUSPE Karl

KUBA Ludvík

KUPECKY Jan

KUZNETSOV Nikolai Dimitriyevitch

KÜSS Wolfgang

LABADENS Jean-Baptiste

LAEMLEIN Alexandre

LAMBERT Lucie

LAMPI Johann Baptist

LAMY

LANCRET Nicolas

LANDTSHEER Jean-Baptiste de

LANGEY Otto

LAURENT Claude

LAWRENCE Sir Thomas

LE NAIN Antoine

LE PRINCE Jean-Baptiste

LEBAS Jacques-Philippe

LEBRUN-VAYSSE Rosalie

LECOMPTE Arsene-Zoe

LEDRU Hilaire

LEEMANS Anthonius

LEFEVRE Jean-Xavier

LEFEVRE Robert

LEGRAND Alexandre

LEIBELT Franz

LELY Peter

LEMOINE-GABIOU Marie-Élisabeth

LENOIR Charles Amable

LEROLLE Henry

LEYDEN Lucas van

LEYSTER Judith

LIEVENS Jan

LIGHT Edward

LINNIG Willem

LIOTARD Jean-Étienne

LIPPI Lorenzo

LISZT Ferenc

LOESCHHORN Johann David Christian

LOESCHMAN

LONGHI Alessandro

LONGMAN & BRODERIP

LOO Jean-Baptiste van

LOO Louis-Michel van

LOOYMANS Romain Pieter

LOREE François

LORENZO MONACO Piero di Giovanni

LOSADA José Maria Rodriguez de

LOT Gilles

LOTT D.

LOW William

LUKS George

LUSURIER Catherine

LYON & HEALY

MACCAFERRI Mario

MACLISE Daniel

MAGAZARI Vincenzo

MAGGINI Giovanni Paolo

MAGGIOTTO Domenico

MAGNANI Aurelio

MAGNUS Eduard

MAJER Joseph Friedrich Bernhard Caspar

MALESZEWSKI Tytus

MANET Edouard

MANNELLO Angelo

MANSUY François

MARIS Jacob

MARKOV Alexey Tarasovich

MARTIN Christian Frederick

MARTINELLI Giovanni

MASSANI Pompeo

MASSOT Firmin

MAST Joseph Laurent

MAYER Marie Françoise Constance

MEARES Richard

MEINCKE en Pieter MEIJER

MEISSONNIER Ernest

MEJAT Paul

MEMLING Hans

MENARD E.

MENZEL Adolph

MERCIER Philippe

MERKELBACH Jacob

MERRITT-CHASE William

MERSENNE Marin

METSU Gabriel

MEULEN Adam-François van der

MEYER Claus

MEYER Johann

MIERIS Frans van

MIERIS Willem van

MIGNARD Paul

MILHAUD Darius

MILLET Jean-François

MILLOT Henri

MINAGGIO Dionisio

MIRBEAU Octave

MOELLER Louis Charles

MOLA Pier Francesco

MOLENAER Jan Miense

MOLINARI Alexander

MOLLENHAUER Johann Andreas

MOLOCH Hector

MOMPER Joos de

MONK Thelonious

MONNIER Henry

MOORE Albert Joseph

MORIER David

MORITZ Carl Wilhelm

MORITZ Louis

MORTIMER John Hamilton

MOZART Wolfgang Amadeus

MUELLER Iwan

MULLIGAN Gerry

MUSSCHER Michiel Van

MUTTICH Kamil Vladislav

MYTENS Peter Martin van

NADAR Félix

NADAR Paul

NADAUD L.

NAEPLAESNIGG Andreas

NAHR Moritz

NATTIER Jean-Marc

NAVEZ François

NEFF Carl Timoleon von

NIXON John

NOGARI Giuseppe

NORMAN Barak

NORTHCOTE James

OBERLAENDER Adolf

OBERLENDER Johann Wilhelm "the Elder"

OCHTERVELT Jacob

OPIE John

OPPENHEIM Moritz Daniel

ORLIK Emil

ORLOV Pimen Nikitich

ORLOWSKI Aleksander

ORTH Benjamin

OSBERT Alphonse

OSTADE Adriaen van

OTTE Johannes Theodorus

OTTENSTEINER Georg Johann

PACE Frederick

PADEREWSKI Ignacy

PALANCA Carlo

PALIZZI Filippo

PANNINI Giovanni Paolo

PAOLINI Pietro

PAPALINI Nicola

PARRASIO Micheli

PARROCEL Étienne

PARTNERSHIP Adam

PASCH the Elder Lorens

PAULINO Pietro

PAULUS C. F.

PAVAROTTI Luciano

PELCOQ Jules

PELEZ Fernand

PENNELL Joseph Judd

PERINET Etienne François

PERKOIS Jacobus

PERRIN Jean-Charles Niçaise

PERRONNEAU Jean-Baptiste

PERSCHEID Nicola

PESNE Antoine

PETERSON Oscar

PETIT DE VILLENEUVE Claude-François-Henry

PETIT Pierre

PETIT William

PETO John Frederick

PHILIPS Charles

PIATET Pierre

PIAZZETTA Giovanni Battista

PICARD Bernard

Pierre de Jélyotte

PINE Robert Edge

PLEYEL Ignace Joseph

PLIVERICS Miksa

POLLAK Carl Josef

POMBIOLI Tommaso

PONS Joseph

PORTHAUX Dominique Antony

PORTIELJE Gerard

POUSSIN Nicolas

PRETI Mattia

PROUST Marcel

PUMACALLAO Basilio Santa Cruz de

QUESNEL Augustin

QUINKHARD Julius Henricus

RAAY EN ZONEN Johannes

RAEGNIER Nicolas

RAETZEN Daniel

RAMIREZ Manuel & HERNANDEZ Santos

RANC Jean

RAOUX Lucien Joseph

REEKERS Johannes

REGNIER Nicolas

REIMER Georg

REMBRANDT van Rijn

RENALDI Francesco Renaldi

RENI Guido

RENOIR Auguste

REPIN Ilya

RICHARDS John

RICHTERS Frederik

RICHTERS Hendrik

RIDINGER Johann Elias

RIEDER Wilhelm August

RIESEN Arno van

RIESENER Henri-François

RIGAUD John Francis

RIGO Jules

RIJKEL Coenraad

RILLOSI Giuseppe

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Nikolay

ROBESON Paul

ROMANY Adèle

ROMBOUTS Pieter

ROMERO Antonio

ROMNEY George

RONGIER Jeanne

ROOSEN I.

ROPS Félicien

ROSLIN Alexander

ROTARI Pietro

ROTHWELL Richard

ROWLANDSON Thomas

ROYBET Ferdinand Victor Léon

RUBENS Peter Paul

RUBIO Luigi

RUCKERS Andreas

RUCKERS Johannes

RUSINOL Santiago

RÄTZEN Daniel

SAFTLEVEN Cornelis

SAINTE-MARIE A. Pierre

SALABERT Firmin

SALLES Jules

SANDBACH William

SAURLE Michael

SAX Adolphe

SAX Charles-Joseph

SCEY Philip

SCHEITS Matthias

SCHENDEL Petrus van

SCHINDLER Albert

SCHMIDT Jacob

SCHNABEL Artur

SCHNEIDER Ludwig Michael

SCHOENFELD Johann Heinrich

SCHOENPFLUG Fritz

SCHOLZ Max

SCHOONEBEEK Adriaan

SCHOTT Fils

SCHUMANN Clara

SCHUSTER Robert

SCHÜSTER Carl Gottlob

SCHÜSTER G.

SEGOVIA Andrés

SELLAS Matteo

SEROV Valentin

SEURAT Georges

SILFVERBERG Ida

SIMM Franz Xaver

SINGER SARGENT John

SIX Jan

SIXE Louis-Antoine

SMIRKE Robert

SOLARIO Antonio

SORGH Hendrick

SPADA Leonello

STEEN Jan

STEENBERGEN Jan

STEHLIN Benoist

STENGEL Johann Simon

STIELER Joseph Karl

STIMMER Tobias

STOWASSER

STOWASSER Wenzel & Sons

STRADIVARI Antonio

STRATTON John Franklin

STREITWOLF Heinrich Gottlieb

STROBACH Franz

STROZZI Bernardo

STUMP Samuel John

SULLY Thomas

SWEERTS Michiel

SYME John

TARADE O. de

TARDIEU Élisabeth-Claire

TENIERS Abraham

TENIERS David

TERBRUGGHEN Hendrick

TERTON Engelbert

THIELE Arthur

THIERIOT Prudent

THOMA Hans

TIELKE Joachim

TIEPOLO Giovanni Domenico

TISCHBEIN Johann Heinrich

TIVOLI Giuseppe

TOORENVLIET Jacob

TORELLI Stefano Torelli

TOUR Georges de la

TOURNIER Nicolas

TRAVERSI Gaspare

TRIEBERT Charles-Louis

TRIEBERT Frédéric

TRIEBERT Guillaume

TRINQUESSE Louis-Roland

TROOST Cornelis

TROY Francois de

UBERTINI Francesco

UGNO Francesco

UHLMANN Leopold

VACCARO Domenico Antonio

VALLAYER-COSTER Anne

VALLIN Jacques-Antoine

VALTON Henri

VAN BABUREN Dirck

VAN BIJLERT Jan

VAN EYCK Jan

VAN HELL Johan

VAN LOO Charles-André

VAN MIERIS Frans

VAN OSTADE Adriaen

VAN SLINGELANDT Pieter Cornelisz

VANDERHAGEN Amand

VELASCO Domingo Antonio

VENETSIANOV Alexey

VERELST Willem

VERKOLJE Jan

VERMEER Johannes

VERNET Carle

VESTIER Antoine

VIGEE LE BRUN Élisabeth Louise

VIGNON Claude

VINACCIA Giovanni

VINATIERI Fortunato

VINCELET Victor

VOBOAM Jean-Baptiste

VOET Jacob Ferdinand

VOIRIOT Guillaume

VON KAULBACH Wilhelm

VON LENBACH Franz

VOUET Simon

VUILLAUME Jean-Baptiste

WAIN Louis

WALTER Bruno

WASMANN Rudolph Friedrich

WATSON -GORDON John

WATSON James

WATTEAU François Louis Joseph

WATTEAU Jean Antoine

WATTS George Frederick

WAUTIER Michaelina

WEBSTER Tom

WEGENER Otto

WEIGEL Christoph

WEIGEL Johann Christoph

WEIKERT Johann Georg

WEISS H.

WEISSE Johann Wendelinus

WESTERHOUT Arnold van

WEYER Jacob

WHEATSTONE Charles

WHEELOCK W.

WIESENTHAL Franz

WIJNE Robert

WIJTMANS Mattheus

WILBAUD Jacques

WILDE Oscar

WILDE Samuel de

WILLICH Caesar

WILLMAN Thomas Lindsay

WIT Frederick de

WIWEL Niels

WOLFF Johann Peter

WOUTERS Jan

WUERST Theodor

WYTMANS Mattheus

WÖRLE Georg

ZACCHIA Paolo

ZAMPIGHI Eugenio

ZASCHE Theo

ZEGELAAR Gerrit

ZERMATI Jules

ZIMMER Wilhelm Carl August

ZOFFANY Johann

ZORN Anders

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The saxophone, for pieces of a mysterious, solemn character, is, in my opinion, the most beautiful low voice known to date.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

In general, the organ is made for absolute domination, and is a jealous and intolerant instrument.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The bass clarinet can borrow the wild timbre of the low notes of the ordinary clarinet, or the calm, solemn, pontifical accent of certain organ registers.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Nothing virginal, nothing pure like the coloring given to certain melodies by the timbre of a clarinet played in the middle range by a skilled virtuoso.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The clarinet can best create, swell, diminish and lose sound. Hence the precious ability to produce the distant, the echo, the echo of the echo, the twilight sound.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Composers must be careful to ask the double bass to do only what is possible and whose correct execution cannot be doubted.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The flute is a virtually expressionless instrument that can be used anywhere and everywhere, thanks to its ease of execution of fast note groups.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The notes, chords and arpeggios that a large number of harps throw across the orchestra and choir are of the utmost splendor.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The small E-flat clarinet has a piercing sound that can easily be made ignoble, starting from the A above the staff.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The little flute can have a happy effect in soft passages, and it is a prejudice to believe that it can only play very loudly.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The sonority of the bassoon is not very strong, and its timbre, absolutely devoid of brilliance and nobility, has a propensity for the grotesque.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The sound of the english horn has a faint, distant quality that makes it superior to all others when it comes to stirring the secret chord of tender memories.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The oboe is first and foremost a melodic instrument; it has an agrarian character, full of tenderness, I would even say shyness.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Candor, naive grace, sweet joy, or the pain of a weak being, suit the accents of the oboe.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

On the piano, the limits of the possible are unknown, and every day new prodigies accomplished by the performers seem to push them back.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Considered as a small independent orchestra, the piano must have its own instrumentation. Of course it does, and this is part of the pianist

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Nothing is more voluptuously melancholy and more apt to render tender, vigorous themes than a mass of cellos playing in unison on the chanterelle.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The resources of the organ are so vast and so numerous that the composer will never know them well, we think, unless he is himself a consummate organist.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Mutes are small wooden machines placed on the bridge of stringed instruments to weaken their sound, and at the same time give them a sad, mysterious and gentle accent.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The organ seems to be able to present itself in two ways: as an instrument adjunct to the orchestra, or as a whole, independent orchestra in its own right.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The trumpet always retains its role of dazzling herald, with its character of triumphant brutality or victorious serenity.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The voice is a very flexible instrument, from which a great deal can and should be demanded.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The expressive phrases of the viola show it to be more intimate than the cello or violin, sometimes infinitely softer, and always noble.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

As for the style that might suit the harpsichord, I think there is no reason to exclude the most daringly fanciful and dissonant modern music.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The horn evokes the victorious fanfares of "Princes Charmants" in the midst of enchanted forests, or evening reveries on the shore...

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The English horn is almost always imbued with nostalgia; its veiled timbre irresistibly suggests distant landscapes of mist and dreams or mysterious apparitions.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The oboe is the instrument of deep, intimate sorrow, as much as of naive joy in the open air.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The crystalline, fluid and pure timbre of the flute evokes (depending on the mode and pace of the phrase) the clarity of the moon or the brilliance of the sun.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The trombone is the "sovereign voice", the language of divine omnipotence, or of formidable imprecations and infernal curses.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The violins are the orchestra's true female voice, passionate and chaste at the same time, heart-rending and sweet, weeping and crying and lamenting, or singing and praying and dreaming, or bursting into joyous accents.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The viola's low strings have a particular bite, its high notes shine with a sadly passionate accent, and its timbre in general is deeply melancholy.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

Nothing can match the penetrating sweetness of twenty chanterelles set in vibration by twenty well-trained bows.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

In compositions whose overall color is intended to be melancholy, the frequent use of the english horn, hidden in the center of the orchestral mass, is ideally suited.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The horn is a noble and melancholy instrument, but its timbre and sonority are not such that it cannot be included in all kinds of pieces.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The trombone possesses the supreme degree of nobility and grandeur; it has all the deep or strong accents of high musical poetry, from the religious accent, imposing and calm, to the forcible clamor of the orgy.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The timbre of the trumpet is noble and brilliant, and is suited to warlike ideas, to cries of fury and vengeance, and to songs of triumph.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

A few virtuosos have cultivated the guitar as a solo instrument, and continue to do so to delightful and original effect.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

It's almost impossible to write well for the guitar without playing it yourself.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

BERLIOZ Hector

The mandolin's timbre, however hazy and dull it may be, has something piquant and original about it that could very often be put to good use.

Grand Traité d'Instrumentation et d'Orchestration Modernes

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The trombone is therefore both one of the most powerful and one of the softest instruments in the orchestra. No other instrument offers such a wide range of nuances, from ppp to fff.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The sounds of the tuba's lowest register are extremely full. A whole world of sound fills the auditorium.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The sound of the alto and tenor saxophones is very velvety, with great agility and a soft, easy attack.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The soprano saxophone sounds less full than the alto, and (if not played very well) a little harder.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

Calm or passionate, gentle or violent, heavily tragic on the 4th string, fairy-like and celestial on the treble, or tenderly serene on the bass, or impetuously anguished on the treble, the violin runs the gamut of human feelings.

Traité de l'Orchestration

FREE

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Nikolay

Cold in quality, the flute is specially suitable, in the major keys, to melodies of light and graceful character; in the minor key, to slight touches of transient sorrow.

Principles of Orchestration

FREE

KOECHLIN Charles

The double bass is a curious instrument which, solo and in the treble, doesn

Principes d'Orchestration

FREE

GUIRAUD Ernest

The clarinet's beautiful, pure and poetic timbre, and the variety of its expressive faculties, mean that it plays a considerable role in orchestral music.

Traité Pratique d'Instrumentation

FREE

GEVAERT François-Auguste

Excelling not only in the execution of a bravura line but also in the interpretation of an expressive melody, the clarinet contains within its range several timbres of a strongly defined character.

Nouveau Traité d’Instrumentation

FREE

RIMSKY-KORSAKOV Nikolay

The clarinet is pliable and expressive, suitable, in the major, to melodies of a joyful or contemplative character, or to bursts of mirth; in the minor, to sad and reflective melodies or impassioned and dramatic passages.

Principles of Orchestration