The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments
Title | The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Montagu |
Publisher | Woodstock [N. Y.] : Overlook Press |
Pages | 146 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Music |
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Through an in-depth study of instruments and illustrations from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the author pieces together information on instruments available to early musicians and the religious and secular purposes for which they were used.
The World of Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments
Title | The World of Medieval and Renaissance Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Montagu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1980 |
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ISBN |
The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments
Title | The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Montagu |
Publisher | |
Pages | 136 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Musical instruments |
ISBN | 9780725403140 |
Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages
Title | Instruments and their Music in the Middle Ages PDF eBook |
Author | TimothyJ. McGee |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 556 |
Release | 2017-07-05 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 135156272X |
This is a collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. The authors discuss the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a very broad, as well as detailed, picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.
Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music
Title | Companion to Medieval and Renaissance Music PDF eBook |
Author | Tess Knighton |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 1997 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 0520210816 |
With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of music and culture in Europe from the beginning of the Christian era to 1600. Fifty essays comment on the social, historical, theoretical, and performance contexts of the music and musicians of the period to offer fresh perspectives on musical styles, research sources, and performance practices of the medieval and Renaissance periods.
The Organ
Title | The Organ PDF eBook |
Author | Douglas Earl Bush |
Publisher | Psychology Press |
Pages | 696 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Organ (Musical instrument) |
ISBN | 0415941741 |
Organ, Volume 3 of the Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments, includes articles on the organ family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instrument builders, the construction of the instruments and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments that predated the piano. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instruments from around the world.
Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance
Title | Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance PDF eBook |
Author | David Munrow |
Publisher | London : Oxford University Press, Music Department |
Pages | 106 |
Release | 1976 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
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Written by the founder of the Early Music Consort of London and a virtuoso performer on early wind instruments, this beautifully-illustrated volume offers a wealth of social and historical background information necessary for a full understanding of the function of instruments in both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance.