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On Some Points in the Received Method of Writing an Orchestral Score

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

W. H. Monk
W. H. Monk*
Affiliation:
King's College
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I very much fear that the observations I have undertaken to bring before you to-day, under the dignified title of a ‘Paper,’ may be disappointing, for more reasons than one. I fear that they should have been illustrated by diagrams, for one thing; but I found that their adequate illustration in such a manner would have been too cumbrous for this, or any other like room, since they have to do with an orchestral score. Then I fear you may think me very revolutionary; for I am proposing to quarrel with old-established customs: with the way in which the pitch of certain orchestral instruments is represented on paper; and with which I cannot, probably, give any very scientific reasons for quarrelling.

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Research Article
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Proceedings of the Musical Association , Volume 2 , 1875 , pp. 58 - 66
Copyright
Copyright © Royal Musical Association, 1875

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