Title: The history of music in fifty instruments
Description: Profiling one at a time the instruments that have joined the orchestra from the Baroque era of the 1600s up to the modern age, the author describes the history of music since orchestras first took the formal shape familiar to us today. The origin and development of each instrument is describe, along with brief information on the instrument makers, composers, and musicians who have made them famous.
Subjects: History, Musical instruments, Music, History and criticism, Musical instruments, history