Hydraulic musical automata in Italian villas and other ingenia 1400-2000
By: Patrizio Barbieri
Series: Il genio delle arti; Genio delle arti
Publisher: Gangemi editore SpA International
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Roma
Language: eng; ita
Number of pages: 543
ISBN-13: 9788849238136
Subjects: Mechanical musical instruments; History; Hydraulic organ
Notes: "Musical Instrument History"--Cover.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 501-526) and indexes.

In English, some text in Italian.
Table of contents: title: Technical evolution of the 'aeolian chamber' for water organs and metalworking; title: Hydro-aeolian blowers: early proposals for a quantitative theory and technical data; title: Villa d'Este, Tivoli: the prototype of late-Renaissance European water organs; title: Automata evolution, before and after Villa d'Este; title: The new water organ at the Villa d'Este, Tivoli, 1999-2003; title: Hero's heritage: the 'Fountain of the Owl' and other automata for the Este family; title: The organo ad acqua in the Pontifical Quirinal Gardens, 1596-2013; title: The statue che suonano at Villa Aldobrandini, Frascati: Mount Parnassus, Cyclops, and Centaur; title: The myth of Faun and the nymph Echo: a mid-18th century revival at Villa Pamphilj, Rome; title: The androids of the Farnese court and other ingenia devised by Jean Baillou, alias Giovanni Baillioni; title: The Giardino matematico: new proposals for fontane armoniche and statues based on ingenious acoustical effects; title: Harpsichords and organs activated by sunlight: an attempt at a 4th class of musical automata; title: Magia artificialis in Kircher's museum; title: Vulcan's forge; title: On some non-hydraulic musical automata: from Italy to China and Japan c1580-1780; title: Michele Todini's Galleria armonica, Rome 1650-1868; title: Giambattista Della Porta's 'singing' hydraulis according to Fabio Colonnna's Herone riformato. With other expressive devices for the organ, c1560-1860.