Download or read book The Eddy Collection of Musical Instruments written by Edwin Marshall Good and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Piano written by Robert Palmieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.
Download or read book Makers of the Piano 1820 1860 written by Martha Novak Clinkscale and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1993 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book continues the overview of early pianos begun in Clinkscale's Makers of the Piano 1700-1820 (OUP, 1993). Although a few of the biographies overlap, the majority of the makers are completely new. Approximately 2,400 makers and manufacturers and about 2,200 pianos are listed. Of this total, about 645 are English, the majority of whom were active in London; more than 200 of the London makers have not been discussed in previous publications.
Download or read book The Last Trumpet written by James Arthur Brownlow and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 1996 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The nineteenth-century English slide trumpet was the last trumpet with the traditional sound of the old classic trumpet. The instrument was essentially a natural trumpet to which had been added a movable slide with a return mechanism. It was England's standard orchestral trumpet, despite the dominance of natural and, ultimately, valved instruments elsewhere, and it remained in use by leading English players until the last years of the century. The slide trumpet's dominating role in nineteenth-century English orchestral playing has been well documented, but until now, the use of the instrument in solo and ensemble music has been given only superficial consideration. Art Brownlow's study is a new and thorough assessment of the slide trumpet. It is the first comprehensive examination of the orchestral, ensemble and solo literature written for this instrument. Other topics include the precursors of the nineteenth-century instrument, its initial development and subsequent modifications, its technique, and the slide trumpet's slow decline. Appendices include checklists of English trumpeters and slide trumpetmakers.
Download or read book Catalogue written by May and May (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 800 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music and Culture in America 1861 1918 written by Michael Saffle and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-04-08 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This collection of new essays focuses on the crucial period at the end of the 19th and early 20th century when American music developed its own unique social and cultural institutions.
Download or read book A Gift of Sound written by Sally B. Brown and published by Metropolitan Museum of Art. This book was released on 2018-08-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: p.p1 {margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px; font: 14.0px Verdana} Published to celebrate the reopening of The Met's André Mertens Galleries for Musical Instruments after a two-year renovation, this Bulletin tells the story of Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown, whose unparalleled collection formed the department’s foundation. Sally B. Brown, Mary Elizabeth’s great-granddaughter, explores how a mother of six without any musical training acquired over 3,600 musical instruments from around the world in the late nineteenth century. Mary Elizabeth also became an esteemed authority in the field, authoring the first catalogue of a musical instruments collection in the United States. This publication features works of art from her collection, roughly two-thirds of which are from non-European cultures, that attest to her groundbreaking deviation from the Western canon and exceptional ambition as a collector.
Download or read book The Keyed Bugle written by Ralph Thomas Dudgeon and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 400 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition of The Keyed Bugle is an expansion rather than a revision of the first edition. The performance practice discussion has been extended to cater to the needs of the reader who wishes to learn the instrument. All chapters contain new information, and the chapters on Performers, Makers and Sellers have been extensively expanded. An additional chapter offers an explanation of the peculiarly distinct acoustics of keyed bugles and provides an analysis of construction styles employed by particular makers. After closely researching instruments that have been documented by the signatures of specific firms and comparing them with unmarked examples, the author enables readers to make confident observations on the nature of regional and manufacturer's styles. The new research in this area provides the groundwork for informed speculation about the origins of undocumented keyed bugles. This work puts the best of current research on the instrument into book form and provides the collector, performer, and serious music student with a clear picture of the instrument's history, repertoire, and technique.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations written by Crosby Brown Collection (Metropolitan Museum of Art) and published by . This book was released on 1905 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Music Reference and Research Materials written by Vincent Harris Duckles and published by New York : Schirmer Books ; London ; Toronto : Prentice Hall International. This book was released on 1997 with total page 840 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text has been the standard guide to source literature of music and contains critically annotated listings of over 3,500 key sources. This comprehensive guide to reference sources is organized into chapters by category of source. The text's organization introduces students to a vast array of sources to include: Dictionaries and Encyclopedias; Histories and Chronologies; Sources of Systematic and Historical Musicology; Bibliographies of Music, Music Literature, and Music Business; Reference Works on Individual Composers and Their Music; Catalogs of Libraries and Musical Instrument Collections; Discographies; Yearbooks; Directories; Electronic Resources.
Download or read book Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 492 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Preliminary Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 946 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Collection of Musical Instruments written by and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Catalogue of the Musical Instruments of Oceanica and America written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Survey of Musical Instrument Collections in the United States and Canada written by Music Library Association. Committee on Musical Instrument Collections and published by Ann Arbor, Mich. : Music Library Association. This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Catalogue of the Crosby Brown Collection of Musical Instruments of All Nations written by Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York, N.Y.). Crosby Brown Collection and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 656 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
