Instrumental odyssey
Subtitle: a tribute to Herbert Heyde
By: edited by Laurence Libin
Series: Bucina : the Historic Brass Society series -- no. 9
Publisher: Pendragon Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Hillsdale, NY
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9781576472521
Subjects: Musical instruments; History
Description: These well-illustrated essays range from biblical antiquity to the 21st century and address subjects appealing to collectors and curators, musicologists and musicians, and everyone desiring to grasp more fully the construction, characteristics, and functions of musical instruments. Empahsizing brass and woodwind topics which lie at the center of Herbert Heyde's work, this also covers string and keyboard instruments, classification and commerce, performance practices and iconography, and the motives of maker and collectors.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Typology of the shofar / Jeremy Montagu; title: Cornetz and saqueboutes at the French Court, 1496-ca. 1670 / James B. Kopp; title: Blaset mit Posaunen : brass playing in the early Reformed Churches of Bern / Canton Stewart Carter; title: Carl Florian Mandel and the production, consumption and status of "Military" brasswind instruments in the 19th century / Trevor Herbert; title: German-American relationships : immigration and trade factors in American brasswind instruments during the 19th century / Sabine K. Klaus; title: A trumpet for Bach's music / Eszter Fontata; title: The unnatural trumpet : the adoption of vent holes in the 1960s and '70s / Edward H. Tarr; title: Museum piece : Mary Elizabeth Adams Brown and the Instruments of the Sax Family at The Metropolitan Museum of Art / E. Bradley Strauchen-Scherer; title: Clarinets at The Metropolitan Museum of Art / Heike Fricke; title: The basset clarinet : a history of makers, designs, and patents / Albert R. Rice; title: More on Roman violin strings 1700-1850 / Patrizio Barbieri; title: " ... made one inlaid and one ordinary violin ... " : notes on violin making in the Vogtland reflected in instruments preserved in the Stiftung Kloster Michaelstein / Monika Lustig; title: A problematical harpsichord : the "Cusseneers Dusselensis" at Colonial Williamsburg / John Koster; title: n times 7 : the anonymous Clavichord E.1608, Paris, Cité de la musique / Alfons Huber; title: A meeting in Verona : Mozart and Giovanni Celestini in a 1770 portrait by Giambettino Cignaroli / Kathryn L. Libin; title: The Gibson upright, Steinway, and the first Red Scare / Laurence Libin; title: The John Webb Collection / Arnold Myers.