Transcriber’s Notes

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

Volume I containsthe text of the work; Volume II contains themusical examples referred to in Volume I. In this eBook, each volumeis in a separate HTML document. References in Volume I to the numberedmusical examples are hyperlinked to Volume II. Seethis footnote for the editor'sexplanation of the musical examples and the boxed rehearsal numbers.The use of asterisks is explained on page XII of theEditor's Preface.

Obvious printer errors have been corrected without note. Otherapparent errors are underlined in red with a popupTranscriber's Note.

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

All MP3 files were created by the Transcriber using Finale with Garritan PersonalOrchestra, which employs sound samples of actual musical instruments,except for vocal solos. The MusicXML files were created automatically in Finale and have notbeen edited further. They reflect primarily the sound of the music,not its appearance. Some workarounds were employed to address minorlimitations and bugs in Finale and Garritan that affected the sound (e.g., empty measures atthe 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 questionableitems are noted in the MusicXML file.

For each music example in Volume II, alink has been provided back to the page in Volume I on which theexample is referenced. Page numbers have been omitted fromVolume II, but are availablein the PDF files.