All variations of such practices are noted and yet for the sake of this bibliography, whenever a new edition was marked as such, it was indicated in the record as such too. With many older editions in is also not clear whether subsequent issues were actual modified editions, or just the reprints with or without any changes. Thus the borrowing of text and ideas was common, and likewise the conceptions and misconceptions presented in these works were then copied without much further investigation further, sometime for decades in future. Due to a rather liberal understanding of copyright and proprietary issues in 19 th century prints, the very authorship of some works was often blurred or very liberally assumed. The final goal of this bibliography however, is to gather all orchestration manuals up to the present time and index, if not link, all their sections with bass coverage.ĭuring the process of gathering this bibliography it has become apparent that even with the best cataloging practices of our modern libraries it is very difficult, and sometime even impossible, to ascertain an exact order of editions and subsequent translations of certain manuals.

In that respect this listing’s goal is also to offer a tool that may help us understand the evolution of bass treatment among composers over time.

The main focus of this bibliography are the period 19 th and early 20 th centuries’ manuals that may offer a direct link to an accessible coverage of double bass online. Welcome to the Orchestration, Instrumentation & Composition Manuals page, a bibliographic reference tool designed to facilitate study of all period and modern editions that may feature double bass.

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