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currentmusicology-5039	Rice, John A.	Review of John Spitzer and Neal Zaslaw. 2004. The Birth of the Orchestra: History of an Institution, 1650-1815. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press	2004	9	.pdf	application/pdf	4097	172	59	© 2004 by the Trustees of Columbia University in the City of New York 137 138 Current Musicology discusses orchestras active between 1750 and 1815. Taking the metaphor of birth seri­ ously, we cannot escape the implication that orchestras of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries were babies or children compared to the adult or­ chestras of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.	cache/currentmusicology-5039.pdf	txt/currentmusicology-5039.txt