Origins and Development of Musical Instruments describes
the creation, use, and development of musical instruments from the Old
Stone Age to the present day. Musical instruments, from the simplest
whistles to the most complex organs, conch trumpets to sousaphones,
archers' and musical bows to violins and pianos, the most basic straw
reeds to the modern MIDI systems, and pairs of stones struck together to
synthesizers, are all described here by instrument collector and expert
Jeremy Montagu. Montagu speculates on how these instruments originated
in the earliest days of humanity and relates how they moved from one
culture to another through history, all the while changing and
developing until they became the instruments we know today. The book
also surveys the present uses of instruments throughout the world.
Each
chapter is devoted to a different type of instrument. Intervals and
additional sections enhance the volume 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 over 120 photos capturing
several hundred instruments from all over the world; many of them from
the author's own collection of over 2,500 instruments. A copious
bibliography of sources, three indexes, and a series of maps make this a
priceless resource.
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