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Musica Getutscht
Musica getutscht (Basel, 1511) is the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments in the West. Written by a priest and chapel singer named Sebastian Virdung, it provided …
German Instrumental Music of the Late Middle Ages
This book describes instrumental music and its context in German society of the late middle ages - from about 1350 to 1520. Players at that time improvised, much like jazz …
Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning
A translation of Jean Denis's Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50), with notes and an introduction.
Introduction to the Art of Singing by Johann Friedrich Agricola
Agricola published Introduction to the Art of Singing in Germany, in 1757, consisting of the 1723 treatise of the Italian singing teacher and castrato, Tosi, to which Agricola …
A History of Pianoforte Pedalling
David Rowland traces the history of piano pedalling from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to its first maturity in the middle of the nineteenth century and beyond. …
The Virtuoso Flute-Player
This is an English translation of Tutor for Playing the Flute (1791) by Johann George Tromlitz. The most explicit of the eighteenth-century tutors for flute-playing, it now serves …
One Hundred Years of Violoncello
This is the first book to address the full range of performance issues for the cello from the Baroque to the early Romantic period. The development of playing techniques and …
The Making of the Victorian Organ
This important book provides a comprehensive survey of English organ building during the most innovative fifty years in its history. Between 1820 and 1870 a number of influences …
The Early History of the Viol
This book traces the development of the viol from its late medieval Spanish origins to the sixteenth century, when it became the most widely played bowed instrument in western …
The Clavichord
The clavichord, forerunner of the piano, was one of the most important instruments in Western keyboard history until the first decades of the nineteenth century. Bernard Brauchli's …
Music Education and the Art of Performance in the German Baroque
In considering the role of practical music in education, this book attempts to define the art of performance in Germany during the Baroque period. The author examines the large …