Musical instruments : an illustrated history : from antiquity to the present

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Musical instruments : an illustrated history : from antiquity to the present

Mary Remnant

Batsford, 1989

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Bibliography: p. 229-234. - Includes index

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An illustrated account of those musical instruments which were and are involved in the art music of the West. Each chapter has been built round instruments with similar methods of playing or construction, and, where possible, following the families of the orchestra.

Table of Contents

  • Stringed instruments
  • organs
  • woodwind and brass families
  • free reed and percussion
  • mechanical instruments
  • instruments of the 20th century
  • the use of instruments.

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