Instruments and their music in the Middle Ages
By: edited by Timothy J. McGee.
Contributors: McGee, Timothy J. 1936-
Series: Music in medieval Europe
Publisher: Ashgate
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Farnham Surrey ; Burlington, VT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 529
ISBN-13: 9780754627623; 9780754628002
Subjects: Musical instruments -- Europe -- History -- To 1500; Music -- 500-1400 -- History and criticism
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Classifications and Lists of Instruments : Haut and bas : the grouping of musical instruments in the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles; title: German musicians and their instruments : a 14th century account by Konrad of Megenberg  / Christopher Page; title: Mains divers acors /  Joscelyn Godwin; title: Fifteenth-century  instruments in Tinctoris''s De Inventionae et Usu Musicae / Anthony Baines; title: Some English consort; title: groupings of the late Middle Ages / Richard Rastall; title: On the origin of the keyboard mechanism in the late Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles; title: Towards an identification of the chekker / Edwin M. Ripin; title: The capture of the chekker / David Kinsela; title: The Norrlanda organ and the Ghent altarpiece, Edwin M. Ripin; title: The trecento harp / Howard Mayer Brown; title: 15th century tablatures for plucked instruments : a summary, a revision and a suggestion / David Fallows; title: The 15th century lute : new and neglected sources, / Christopher Page; title: The medieval gittern and citole : a case of mistaken identity / Laurence Wright; title: The trecento fiddle and its bridges, / Howard Mayer Brown; title: Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England / Mary Remnant; title: Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England : some further observations / Mary Remnant; title: An aspect of medieval fiddle construction / Christopher Page; title: Vedel and geige, fiddle and viol :  German string traditions in the 15th century / Keith Polk; title: The Renaissance slide trumpet : fact or fiction? / Peter Downey; title: Slide trumpet madness : fact or fiction? / Herbert W. Myers; title: The trombone, the slide trumpet and the ensemble; title: tradition of the early Renaissance / Keith Polk; title: The trompette des menestrels in the 15th-century alta capella / Ross W. Duffin; title: Misleading iconography: the case of the ''Adimari Wedding Cassone'' / Timothy J. McGee; title: Backward bells and barrel bells : some notes on the early history of loud instruments / Ross W. Duffin; title: On ''instrumental style'' in early melody / Lloyd Hibberd; title: Instruments and the Faenza codex / Timothy J. McGee; title: Musical instruments at the medieval banquet / Edmund A. Bowles; title: Musical instruments in civic processions during the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles.