John Weeks Moore

“ The musician who sits down to write a symphony, a concerto, an opera, or any piece for several voices or instruments, can only form an idea of the effects which may be expected to result from his labors by having under his eyes all the parts which concur to form the whole. ”

“ Scores are necessary to conductors chorus masters, and directors of concerts, and indispensable to accompanists ; for it is only b3 them that they can gather any idea of the composition as a whole, or of its effects, or of what ii assigned to the different voices and instruments All composers do not lay out their scores in the same manner. ”

“ There is not an positive rule for arranging parts in scores o instrumental compositions. The first arrangement of the following is that of the Italian masters, and of Mozart ; the second that of Cherubini, Beethoven, and the modern French and German school ”