Historically Significant Orchestration Texts
- Michael Praetorius (1619): Syntagma musicum volume two, De Organographia.
- Valentin Roeser (1764): Essai de l'instruction à l'usage de ceux, qui composent pour la clarinet et le cor.
- Hector Berlioz (1844), revised in 1905 by Richard Strauss: Grand traité d’instrumentation et d’orchestration modernes (Treatise on Instrumentation).
- François-Auguste Gevaert (1863): Traité general d’instrumentation.
- Charles-Marie Widor (1904) : Technique de l’orchestre moderne (Manual of Practical Instrumentation).
- Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov (1912): Основы оркестровки (Principles of Orchestration).
- Cecil Forsyth (1914): Orchestration.
- Alfredo Casella: (1950) La Tecnica dell'Orchestra Contemporanea.
- Charles Koechlin (1954–9): Traité de l'Orchestration (4 vols).
- Walter Piston (1955): Orchestration.
- Samuel Adler (1982, 1989, 2002): The Study of Orchestration.
- Nelson Riddle (1985): Arranged by Nelson Riddle
- Alfred Blatter (1997) : Instrumentation and Orchestration (Second edition).
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