Transcriber’s Notes

About this e-book: This e-book was prepared from a 1964 reprint published by Dover Publications, Inc., New York, which in turn was prepared from the two-volume 1922 English translation published by Édition Russe de Musique, Paris.

Volume I contains the text of the work; Volume II contains the musical examples referred to in Volume I. In this e-book, each volume is in a separate HTML document. References in Volume I to the numbered musical examples are hyperlinked to Volume II. See this footnote for the editor's explanation of the musical examples and the boxed rehearsal numbers. The use of asterisks is explained on page XII of the Editor's Preface.

Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Other apparent errors are underlined in red with a popup Transcriber's Note.

About the music: Midi or MP3 files have been provided for all music examples (except for single-note examples, and tables of instrument ranges and chords). Click on the [Listen] link to hear the music. For the extended music examples in Volume II, you can also click on the [PDF] link to view an enlarged version of the original music images; and on the [XML] link to view or download the notation in MusicXML.

All MP3 files were created by the Transcriber using Finale with Garritan Personal Orchestra, which employs sound samples of actual musical instruments, except for vocal solos. The MusicXML files were created automatically in Finale and have not been edited further. They reflect primarily the sound of the music, not its appearance. Some workarounds were employed to address minor limitations and bugs in Finale and Garritan that affected the sound (e.g., empty measures at the beginning and/or end of a piece to avoid abrupt cut-offs; changes in dynamics; expansion of shared staves where instruments are doubled; instrument substitutions; etc.). Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note; other questionable items are noted in the MusicXML file.

For each music example in Volume II, a link has been provided back to the page in Volume I on which the example is referenced. Page numbers have been omitted from Volume II, but are available in the PDF files.