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    Instrumentarium and instrumentation in the north German baroque opera
    McCredie, Andrew D. ( 1964)
    The systematic study of orchestral practice and instrumentation in the German Baroque Opera has until now been assigned a relatively insignificant place in biographies of specific composers, or in historical studies of particular centres. Many of these works, while presenting a valuable compilation of the instrumental methode of a particular composer, or of the adoption of his style to meet the conditions of performance which prevailed from one centre to another, do not however supply their readers with a chronogically exhaustive investigation of the role of the orchestra in the baroque theatre, nor of the contribution made by theatre orchestration of the general artistic development of orchestral music as a whole.