. Modern orchestration and instrumentation : or, The art of instrumentation ; containing detailed descriptions of the character and peculiarities of all instruments and their practical employment. ^^s^^p.^^^. In modern orchestras Guitar and Mandolinparts are very often interpreted by the pizzicatoof a solo Violin ; but through a substitution ofthis kind, the principal effect intended by suchcomposers as Gretry, Mozart and Rossini, local-color, so very essential for graphic dramatic por-trayal, is entirely lost. 4. THE ZITHER. (zither, cvthare, cythare.) During the last twenty years this instru


. Modern orchestration and instrumentation : or, The art of instrumentation ; containing detailed descriptions of the character and peculiarities of all instruments and their practical employment. ^^s^^p.^^^. In modern orchestras Guitar and Mandolinparts are very often interpreted by the pizzicatoof a solo Violin ; but through a substitution ofthis kind, the principal effect intended by suchcomposers as Gretry, Mozart and Rossini, local-color, so very essential for graphic dramatic por-trayal, is entirely lost. 4. THE ZITHER. (zither, cvthare, cythare.) During the last twenty years this instrumenthas been gradually advanced into an entirelynew sphere, brought about principally by thefixed and practical stringing agreed upon at theMusical Congresses of 1877 and 1878, transform-ing it into quite a perfect musical instrument. The modern 29 Stringed Zither is tuned andits music written in the following manner : Finger board or Melody Strings. =3=3? Accompaniment \—Strings. pi &|fi^§P the Accompanying and Bass strings soundingan octave lower than they are really composers write the accompaniment andbass in the Bass-clef, in accordance with theirtrue pitch ; but if we take in


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