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Stradivari
A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments.
A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.
The Cambridge Companion to the Piano
A Companion to the piano, one of the world's most popular instruments.
The Violin
The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or sitting, alone or in groups, in bars, churches, concert halls, lumber camps, even concentration camps, by pros and amateurs, adults and children, men and women, at virtually any latitude on any continent. Despite dogged attempts by musicologists worldwide to find its source, the violin’s origins remai...
1650-1850
Volume 25 of 1650–1850: Ideas, Aesthetics, and Inquiries in the Early Modern Era investigates the local textures that make up the whole cloth of the Enlightenment. Ranging from China to Cheltenham and from Spinoza to civil insurrection, volume 25 celebrates the emergence of long-eighteenth-century culture from particularities and prodigies. Unfurling in the folds of this volume is a special feature on playwright, critic, and literary theorist John Dennis. Edited by Claude Willan, the feature returns a major player in eighteenth-century literary culture to his proper role at the center of eighteenth-century politics, art, publishing, and dramaturgy. This celebration of John Dennis mingles w...
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The Eighteenth-Century Fortepiano Grand and Its Patrons
"Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer" ( Eighteenth-Century Music). In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. "Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential." — Choice
Unsound Supplies
Unsound Supplies investigates the hidden provenance of the materials that have shaped modern musical and audio technology. In ten detailed chapters, it uncovers the global, often colonial, sources of materials such as African ivory, Brazilian wood, and Indian shellac used in musical instruments and audio equipment. The book reveals the complex supply chains, labor conditions, and political and epistemic forces behind these resources, challenging a conventionally sanitized view of music production. Its critical perspective on the often-overlooked material foundations of modern soundscapes make it a thought-provoking read for those interested in music, history, and global trade.
The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation
This is the first book to combine museum-based conservation techniques with practical instructions on the maintenance, repair, adjustment, and tuning of virtually every type of historical musical instrument. As one of the world's leading conservators of musical instruments, Stewart Pollens gives practical advice on the handling, storage, display and use of historic musical instruments in museums and other settings, and provides technical information on such wide-ranging subjects as acoustics, cleaning, climate control, corrosion, disinfestation, conservation ethics, historic stringing practice, measurement and historic metrology, retouching, tuning historic temperaments, varnish and writing reports. There are informative essays on the conservation of each of the major musical instrument groups, the treatment of paper, textiles, wood and metal, as well as historic techniques of wood and metalworking as they apply to musical instrument making and repair. This is a practical guide that includes equations, formulas, tables and step-by-step instructions.
