Musical instruments : history, technology and performance of instruments of Western music / Murray Campbell, Clive Greated, Arnold Myers.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2006.Description: ix, 510 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 019921185X (pbk.)
  • 9780199211852 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • ML460 .C35 2006
Contents:
Sounds and sweet airs -- Family resemblances -- Woodwind instruments with reeds -- The flute family -- Bugles and horns -- Trumpets and trombones -- Percussion instruments -- Stringed instruments played with a bow -- Plucked and hammered stringed instruments -- Clavichord and harpsichord -- The pianoforte -- The pipe organ -- Electracoustic, electromechanical, and electronic instruments -- Appendices. 1. Table of pitches and frequencies -- 2. Keywork tables for typical woodwinds -- 3. Brass instrument sizes.
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Book Storms Research Center Main Collection ML460 .C35 2006 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 98639263

Originally published: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Sounds and sweet airs -- Family resemblances -- Woodwind instruments with reeds -- The flute family -- Bugles and horns -- Trumpets and trombones -- Percussion instruments -- Stringed instruments played with a bow -- Plucked and hammered stringed instruments -- Clavichord and harpsichord -- The pianoforte -- The pipe organ -- Electracoustic, electromechanical, and electronic instruments -- Appendices. 1. Table of pitches and frequencies -- 2. Keywork tables for typical woodwinds -- 3. Brass instrument sizes.

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