Well-tempered woodwinds
Subtitle: Friedrich von Huene and the making of early music in a new world
By: Geoffrey Burgess
Series: Publications of the Early Music Institute; Publications of the Early Music Institute
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 290
ISBN-13: 9780253016416
Copyright date: 2105
Subjects: Woodwind instrument makers; Musical instruments; Construction; Woodwind instruments; Biography; History
Other titles: Friedrich von Huene and the making of early music in a new world
Description: Friedrich von Huene is arguably the most important manufacturer of historical woodwinds in the 20th century. Since he began making recorders in 1958, von Huene has exerted a strong influence on the craft of building woodwind instruments and on the study of instrument-making, as he has helped to shape the emerging field of Early Music performance practice.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-273), discographies, and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface. Why recorders?; title: Prologue. A domestic music room in Brookline; title: Childhood in paradise; title: Flight from Eden; title: Training in a new world; title: Friedrich the great : founding an empire; title: Trading old flutes for new; title: Heydays; title: At the hub of an international network; title: Cause to celebrate; title: The von Huene legacy; title: Epilogue. Amid the mementos of an active life; title: Appendix 1. Von Huene family tree; title: Appendix 2. Friedrich von Huene summary chronology; title: Appendix 3. List of honors; title: Appendix 4. Recordings of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with recorders, 1941-1993; title: Appendix 5. List of instruments produced by the von Huene workshop; title: Appendix 6. Recorders and traversos heard in recordings by Frans Brüggen; title: Appendix 7. General discography.