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841586
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Montagu, Jeremy.
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| Title & Author
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Origins and development of musical instruments /\ Jeremy Montagu.
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| Publication Statement
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Lanham, Md. :: Scarecrow Press,, 2007.
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xvii, 257 pages :: illustrations ;; 29 cm
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| ISBN
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0810856573
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: 9780810856578
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-233) and index.
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| Contents
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1. Origins -- Musical sound -- Voices -- Lithophones -- Percussion bars -- Bells and gongs -- Rattles -- Interlude A: Instruments of protection.
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2. Drums -- Trouble with tension -- Drums -- Tubular drums -- Interlude B: Musicians.
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3. Flutes and recorders -- Monotone -- Whistling in the wind -- Vessel flutes -- Penny whistles and recorders -- Transverse flutes -- Harmonic flutes -- Interlude C: The Medieval Renaissance and the First Industrial Revolution.
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4. Reeds -- Straws in the wind -- Oboes and bassoons -- Clarinets and other single reeds -- Free reeds -- Interlude D: The ideal accompaniment.
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5. "Brass" instruments: trumpets and horns -- Interlude E: The Second Industrial Revolution.
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6. String instruments -- From bows to lyres, harps, and lutes -- Lyres -- Harps -- Zithers -- Stringed keyboards -- Plucked lutes -- Bowed lutes aka fiddles -- Interlude F: Messengers.
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7. Pipe organs -- Interlude G: Symbiosis.
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8. Electrophones -- Interlude H: Newly created, recognized, or discovered instruments.
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Afterword: Archaeology and other -ologies -- Classification of instruments -- Scales and music -- The sounds of silence.
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| Abstract
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"Origins and Development of Musical Instruments details the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old Stone Age to the present. Musical instruments - from the simplest whistles to the most complex organs, from conch trumpets to sousaphones, from archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most basic straw reeds to modern MIDI systems, and pairs of stones struck together to synthesizers - are all described by instrument collector and expert Jeremy Montagu. Montagu speculates on how these instruments originated and relates how they moved from one culture to another through history, all the while evolving into today's modern instruments." "Each chapter is devoted to a different type of instrument. Intervals and additional sections enhance the text with information on musicians, the Medieval Renaissance, the ideal accompaniment, archaeology, symbiotic and newly created instruments, classification of instruments, scales and music, and some of the problems of acoustics. This comprehensive volume is illustrated with more than 120 photos capturing several hundred instruments from all over the world, many of them from the author's own collection of more than 2,500 instruments. A copious bibliography, index, and maps complete this priceless resource."--Jacket.
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Musical instruments-- History.
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Musical instruments.
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Musikinstrument
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Musikinstrument.
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Muziekinstrumenten.
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| Dewey Classification
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784.1909
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| LC Classification
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ML460.M76 2007
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24.80bcl
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