On Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:21:18 -0800 (PST), Christopher Wilke wrote > Howard, > > --- On Tue, 1/10/12, howard posner <howardpos...@ca.rr.com> wrote: > > > > Have you read Rimsky-Korsakov's Principles of > > Orchestration? It comes from precisely this > > period. (You can find English versions online) > > > > I've read portions of it, but it's quite a large document to browse > through. Relevant to the topic of this discussion: What does he > have to say about the relative merits and defects of gut vs. steel > strings during the period of transition?
He died in 1908 - that's pretty much before the general shift to metal strings on bowed instruments. Cheers, Ralf Mattes To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
