Principles of Orchestration By Nikolay Rimsky-Korsakov Edited by Maximilian Steinberg English translation by Edward Agate Rimsky-Korsakov had long been engrossed in his treatise on orchestration. We have in our possession a thick note book of some 200 pages in fine hand writing, dating from the years 1873-1874, containing a monograph on the question of acoustics, a classification of wind instruments and a detailed description of the construction and...