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Show New Edition on Instrumentation. This account of a new edition of P.er-llnz'.H P.er-llnz'.H stupendous work on instrumentation instrumenta-tion enm.-s from tin- 1-ierlln on .-.-pou.l- ent of th.- Musical Courier "The well-known LelpslC publishing house nf. c. F. Peters has just brought out a new edition of Berlioz's monumental monumen-tal work on Instrumentation, revised and enlarged by Richard Strausf Berllos's book, the greatest vr-i written nn the art of Instrumentation, was published hair a century aK.i before the great Wagnerian era, and as since then several new orchestral Instruments have been invented. in-vented. It waa time that the work underwent under-went ti revision. Strauss, of course, was Just the man to do this n this revision Strauss retains the original text, and the Illustrations from scores as given by Ber-lolz. Ber-lolz. He. alflO adds man remarks and comments of his own and a large number num-ber of Illustrations from the Wagner scores, as well ,ks several from his own works. In which he. quotes "Feuersnol the Slnfonln Domesil.-a ' ' fill Eulen- splegei ' "Tod und VerTclarung and "Zsrathuatrs " He has not given a line from the compositions of any living corp.-poser, corp.-poser, sjive himself, which seems rather strange witness, fur instance the wonderful won-derful Instrumentation of Saint-Saens Neither are Brahms nnr Tchaikovsky Cited Ci-ted at all, hut thai is not bo much to bt wondered at. nrahms especially, did a gT' at deal of pad instrumentation |