Instrumentation is to music precisely what color is to painting.
• A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC01.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5.
• A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC01.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5.
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Cette face de l’instrumentation est exactement, en musique, ce que le coloris est en peinture.
— Hector Berlioz
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• A travers chants (1862), ch. 1 http://www.hberlioz.com/Writings/ATC01.htm; Elizabeth Csicsery-Rónay (trans.) The Art of Music and Other Essays (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994) p. 5." to mean that wisdom is timeless.
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About Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 – March 8 1869) was a French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.
About Hector Berlioz
Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11 1803 – March 8 1869) was a French composer, conductor and music critic, widely seen as the greatest representative in music of the French Romantic school.
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