This collection of twenty-eight influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory considers the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a broad and detailed picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.
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This collection of twenty-eight influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory considers the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a broad and detailed picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.
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Very good. No dust jacket. Ex-library. xxv, 529 p. : ill.; 25 cm. LCCN 2007943184 Type of material Book Main title Instruments and their music in the Middle Ages / edited by Timothy J. McGee. Published/Created Farnham Surrey; Burlington, VT: Ashgate, c2009. Description xxv, 529 p. : ill.; 25 cm. ISBN 9780754627623 (hbk. ) 0754627624 (hbk. ) LC classification ML489.2. I57 2009 Related names McGee, Timothy J. (Timothy James), 1936-Contents Classifications and Lists of Instruments: Haut and bas: the grouping of musical instruments in the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles--German musicians and their instruments: a 14th century account by Konrad of Megenberg / Christopher Page--Mains divers acors / Joscelyn Godwin--Fifteenth-century instruments in Tinctoris''s De Inventionae et Usu Musicae / Anthony Baines--Some English consort--groupings of the late Middle Ages / Richard Rastall--On the origin of the keyboard mechanism in the late Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles--Towards an identification of the chekker / Edwin M. Ripin--The capture of the chekker / David Kinsela--The Norrlanda organ and the Ghent altarpiece, Edwin M. Ripin--The trecento harp / Howard Mayer Brown--15th century tablatures for plucked instruments: a summary, a revision and a suggestion / David Fallows--The 15th century lute: new and neglected sources, / Christopher Page--The medieval gittern and citole: a case of mistaken identity / Laurence Wright--The trecento fiddle and its bridges, / Howard Mayer Brown--Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England / Mary Remnant--Rebec, fiddle and crowd in England: some further observations / Mary Remnant--An aspect of medieval fiddle construction / Christopher Page--Vedel and geige, fiddle and viol: German string traditions in the 15th century / Keith Polk--The Renaissance slide trumpet: fact or fiction? / Peter Downey--Slide trumpet madness: fact or fiction? / Herbert W. Myers--The trombone, the slide trumpet and the ensemble tradition of the early Renaissance / Keith Polk--The trompette des menestrels in the 15th-century alta capella / Ross W. Duffin--Misleading iconography: the case of the ''Adimari Wedding Cassone'' / Timothy J. McGee--Backward bells and barrel bells: some notes on the early history of loud instruments / Ross W. Duffin--On ''instrumental style'' in early melody / Lloyd Hibberd--Instruments and the Faenza codex / Timothy J. McGee--Musical instruments at the medieval banquet / Edmund A. Bowles--Musical instruments in civic processions during the Middle Ages / Edmund A. Bowles. LC Subjects Musical instruments--Europe--History--To 1500. Music--500-1400--History and criticism. Notes Includes bibliographical references and index. Series Music in medieval Europe National bib no. GBA898965 National bib agency no. 014691908 Other system no. (OCoLC)ocn234380352 (OCoLC)234380352 Invalid ISBN 9780754628002 (set)