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A survey of the origins and development of musical instruments world-wide from Paleolithic times to the present day. Illustrated with pictures of several hundred instruments from all over the world on 120 plates, with five maps for ease of reference to exotic places.
Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, anthropology, and fine arts. Includes 24 plates and 167 illustrations.
xxii + 286 pp.Includes a Foreword by Ross Kirk
Details the forms, decoration, evolutions, methods of sounding past and present, and mechanical and electrical instruments from around the world, ranging through folk, popular, orchestral, and national instruments of every kind.
This volume is a comprehensive, detailed and highly accessible guide to all musical instruments, their personality, story and their sound.
This is an encyclopedic, large-format book containing hundreds of illustrations. While not geared toward making conventional instruments, Musical Instrument Design provides all the information that anyone (amateur or professional) should ever need to construct an amazingly wide variety of percussion, string, and wind instruments. Includes many designs along with parts lists and detailed construction instructions.
Now a private museum curator in Oxford, England, Montagu began his study of Biblical instruments as an illustrated lecture to music clubs and societies over 30 years ago. That led to a series of articles for The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments (1984), and that in turn to a handbook for a museum collection, and a larger self- published book. The arrangement is by Biblical section. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
An incisive look into the development of musical instruments, beginning with an investigation of the musical traditions of principal ancient civilizations, the text then moves on to more modern types of instruments and their evolution of sound.
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This text traces the evolution of musical instruments and their importance in different world cultures. The book examines the relationship between man and music, looking at the varied ways in which people have used instruments throughout history.