Download or read book Orchestration written by Cecil Forsyth and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 1982-01-01 with total page 594 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "For its time the most comprehensive treatment of the subject." — New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. In what is probably the best general book on the subject, a noted English composer describes 57 orchestral instruments, tracing their origins, development, and status at the beginning of World War I.