Contents -- List of Plates -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Documents -- List of Music Examples -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- The lyre of Orpheus -- The etymology of "orchestra" -- The evolutionary taxonomy of the orchestra -- The history of orchestral instruments -- Orchestral size and balances -- The history of orchestration -- The social history of the orchestra -- Plan of the book -- 2. Pre-orchestral Ensembles -- Ensembles for intermedii -- Table music -- Ensembles for court operas and masques -- Ensembles in the theater -- Polychoral ensembles for sacred music -- French string bands -- Toward the orchestra -- 3. Lully's Orchestra -- The Lully myth -- Organization and institutions -- Scoring and instrumentation -- Performance practice -- Repertory -- The Lully myth (2) -- 4. Corelli's Orchestra -- Roman ensembles before Corelli -- Corelli's career -- Venues and performances -- Instrumentation and balances -- The organization of Corelli's orchestra -- The Repertory of Corelli's orchestra -- 5. The Orchestra in Italy -- Voices and instruments in Italian opera -- The size and shape of opera orchestras -- Orchestras for oratorios and serenatas -- Church orchestras -- Concert orchestras -- Instruments for orchestras -- Training orchestra musicians -- 6. The Orchestra in France -- The decline of orchestral music at court -- The orchestra at the Opéra -- Orchestras in the theaters of Paris -- The Concert Spirituel -- Private and public concert orchestras -- Orchestras in the French provinces -- 7. The Orchestra in Germany -- Courts and Kapellen -- The German Lullists -- The transformation of German Kapellen -- Court orchestras: duties and venues -- Court orchestras: organization -- Civic orchestras -- Bach's orchestras -- The Stuttgart orchestra -- The Mannheim orchestra -- 8. The Orchestra in England.

Patronage and the public -- The King's Musick -- The birth of the orchestra -- The decline of the King's Musick -- Theater orchestras -- Orchestras at the pleasure gardens -- Orchestras in concert -- Amateur orchestras -- Provincial orchestras -- 9. The Classical Orchestra -- Orchestral instruments -- Internal organization -- The size of the classical orchestra -- Balances and proportions: ideal orchestras -- Balances and proportions: real orchestras -- The orchestral consensus -- The end of the classical orchestra -- 10. Placement, Seating, and Acoustics -- Orchestras in balconies -- Orchestras in the pit -- Orchestras on the floor -- The orchestra on stage -- Placement and the acoustics of the orchestra -- Orchestras, acoustics, and musical style -- 11. Orchestral Performance Practices -- Bowing and articulation -- Tuning and intonation -- Improvised ornamentation -- Rehearsal -- Leadership -- The ideology of orchestral performance practice -- 12. The Life and Times of an Eighteenth-Century Orchestra Musician -- The Esterházy Kapelle -- The London marketplace -- Emilia-Romagna: a regional market for musicians -- Vienna in transition -- Civic music in Leipzig -- Conclusions -- 13. The Birth of Orchestration -- Orchestral effects -- Effects of unity and grandeur -- Effects of variety and nuance -- Contexts for orchestral effects -- The theory of orchestration -- 14. The Meaning of the Orchestra -- Early metaphors of the orchestra -- The orchestra as a civil polity -- The orchestra and the army -- Mechanism vs. organism -- Art and nature -- A web of metaphors -- APPENDICES -- A. Sample orchestras, 1754-1759 -- B. Sample orchestras, 1773-1778 -- C. Sample orchestras, 1791-1796 -- D. Sample orchestras, 1808-1818 -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.

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