Please handle this volume with care. The University of Connecticut Libraries, Storrs Music MT 70 W33 Digitized by the Internet Archive 2013 in http://archive.org/details/orchestrationpraOOwagn ORCHESTRATION A Practical Handbook McGRAW-HILL SERIES IN MUSIC Douglas Moore, Consulting Editor AtKisson • Basic Counterpoint Chase • America's Music Ratner • Music: The Listener's Art Wagner • Orchestration: A Practical Handbook Wagner • Band Scoring Other titles inpreparation ORCHESTRATION A Handbook Practical WAGNER JOSEPH Composer-in-Residence Pepperdine University Los Angeles, California McGraw-Hill Book Company, Inc. NEW YORK TORONTO LONDON 1959 ORCHESTRATION: A Practical Handbook Copyright © 1959 by the McGraw-Hill Book Company. Inc. Printed in the United States ofAmerica. All rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission ofthe publishers. Library ofCongress Catalog CardNumber 57-8634 67655 11-MAMM -765432 7 89 10 To Dr. Howard Hanson who helped to make America conscious of its music