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Handbook for Instrumentation
(Руководство к инструментовке)
Russian translation of the Traité général d’instrumentation by François Auguste Gevaert (1865).
| Catalogue References | TH 329 ; ČW 628 (as "Guide to Orchestration") |
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| Date | Summer 1865 |
| Text | François Auguste Gevaert (1828–1908),Traité général d’instrumentation. Exposé méthodique des principes de cet art dans leur application á l'orchestre, á la musique d'harmonie et de fanfares, etc. (Liege: Gand, 1863) |
| Language | Russian (translated from the original French by Tchaikovsky) |
| Autograph Location | Moscow (Russia): Glinka National Museum Consortium of Musical Culture (ф. 88, No. 170) |
| First Publication | Moscow: P. Jurgenson, 1866 |
| Notes | Tchaikovsky incorporated his own comments and musical examples into Gevaert's original text |
| External Links | Google
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