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Among the books listed in this section, only the highlighted in yellow below are available for direct sale with discounts up to -80% OFF.

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Antique Woodwind Instruments: An Identification And Price Guide Peter H. Adams 0764322249 New. Unused

13.10 €

La Mancha de Don Quijote (la realidad de una fantasía) [Catalogue] New. Unused 9.30 €
L'Encyclopedie: Lutherie Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert 9782905388209 Used. Like new.

Former owner and date on the first page.

11.05 €
Making a Spinet by Traditional Methods John Barnes 0950778249 New. Unused 7.09 €

Musical dictionaries, encyclopaedias and the like

Antique Musical Instruments and Their Players (Dover Pictorial Archive) by Filippo Bonanni

Book description
The 1723 Il Gabinetto Armonica, famous collection of copperplates by van Westerhout, shows every important instrument of the day in exceptional detail: organs, harpsichords, violins, horns, drums, etc.; plus folk instruments of Europe and the Orient. Features 152 full-page, beautiful copperplates.

Paperback: 301 pages.
Publisher: Dover Publications
Language: English

 

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Atlas de los instrumentos musicales by Klaus Maersch, Bernat Cabero Pueyo (Traductor)

Book description
Traducción de: Bildwörterbuch Musik-Instrumente.

: pages.
Publisher: Madrid: Alianza, 1999.
Language:

 

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Colecciones Españolas Instrumentos Musicales Vol.I by Cristina Bordas Ibáñez

Book description
Se describen multitud de instrumentos que existen el los fondos de museos públicos españoles.

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Publisher: Centro de Documentación de Música y Danza
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Colecciones Españolas Instrumentos Musicales Vol.II by Cristina Bordas Ibáñez

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Se describen multitud de instrumentos que existen el los fondos de museos públicos españoles.

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Publisher: Centro de Documentación de Música y Danza
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Como Conocer los Instrumentos de Orquesta by Mercedes Baker

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Publisher: Iberica Grafic, S. L.
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Diccionario de Instrumentos Musicales. desde la Antigüedad a J. S. Bach by Ramón Andrés

Book description
Describe todo tipo de instrumentos de música, con referencias históricas. Tiene multitud de fotos y dibujos.

: pages.
Publisher: Península
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Diccionario de Instrumentos Musicales. desde la Antigüedad a J. S. Bach by Ramón Andrés

Book description
Describe todo tipo de instrumentos de música, con referencias históricas. Tiene multitud de fotos y dibujos.

: 610 pages.
Publisher: Peninsula, 2nd edition
Language: Castellano

 

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Diccionario de Instrumentos Musicales. desde la Antigüedad a J. S. Bach by Ramón Andrés

Book description
Describe todo tipo de instrumentos de música, con referencias históricas. Tiene multitud de fotos y dibujos.

Paperback: 540 pages.
Publisher: Bibliograf
Language: Castellano

 

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Diccionario del Mueble by Vanessa Cucco

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Diccionario Harvard de Música by D. Michael Randel

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Publisher: Alianza Diccionarios
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Diccionario Técnico Akal de Términos Musicales by Pedro González Casado

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Dura: pages.
Publisher: Akal S.A.
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Diccionario técnico de la música by Felipe Pedrell

Book description
Editado originalmente por ISIDRO TORRES ORIOL

: 529 pages.
Publisher: EDICION FACSIMIL DE 2009. EDITORIAL MAXTOR
Language:

 

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Dictionnaire de la lutherie et de l'archèterie by Eric Lehmann

Book description
Dans ce livre, préfacé par Gisèle Coupert, Bernard Millant et Etienne Vatelot, Eric Lehmann rassemble tous les termes précis du vocabulaire professionnel appliqué aux bois, gestes, instruments, outils, pièces, colorants, décoration, vernis... dans les domaines de la lutherie et de l’archèterie. Ce livre est le fruit d’un patient travail de recherches et de collectes auprès des artisans concernés, des interprètes, dans les ouvrages spécialisés... 850 termes y sont répertoriés et définis. Plus de 60 illustrations l'enrichissent également. Ce dictionnaire de la Lutherie et de l’Archèterie est le premier dictionnaire spécifique qui traite de ces métiers d’art ! Il est agrémenté de planches qui illustrent chaque pièce du violon et de l’archet, les relevés de cotes, différentes formes de “F”... Luthiers professionnels, amateurs de lutherie, musiciens, mélomanes, collectionneurs avertis... trouveront les mots du métier et les mots d'atelier dans ce livre qualifié, dans la préface, d'évènement et d'indispensable sous la signature du Maître-Luthier et Archetier Bernard Millant. Premier à traiter de ces deux métiers d'art, ce Dictionnaire de la Lutherie et de l'Archèterie sera apprécié des luthiers et musiciens, des mélomanes et collectionneurs. Les premiers retrouveront les mots propres à leur métier et à leur art, les seconds les termes entendus lors de concerts ou de visites dans les ateliers de lutherie ou encore rencontrés lors de l'une ou l'autre lecture. Sous la plume d'Eric Lehmann, ils retrouveront toute leur signification

: 150 pages.
Publisher: Les Amis de la Musique
Language: Français

 

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Directory of Contemporary American Musical Instrument Makers by Susan Caust Farrell

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Dura: 232 pages.
Publisher: Univ of Missouri Pr
Language: English

 

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Enciclopedia ilustrada de los instrumentos musicales. Todas las épocas y regiones del mundo by Bozhidar Abrashev + Vladimir Gadjev (texto). Anton Radevsky (ilustrador)

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: pages.
Publisher: Kibea Publishing Company
Language: Bulgarian

 

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Enciclopedia ilustrada de los instrumentos musicales. Todas las épocas y regiones del mundo by Bozhidar Abrashev + Vladimir Gadjev (texto). Anton Radevsky (ilustrador)

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Language: English

 

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Enciclopedia ilustrada de los instrumentos musicales. Todas las épocas y regiones del mundo by Bozhidar Abrashev + Vladimir Gadjev (texto). Anton Radevsky (ilustrador)

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Publisher: Könemann (Tandem Verlag GmbH)
Language: Castellano

 

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Encyclopédie des instruments de musique by Alexander Buchner, Barbora Faure

Book description
Historia y fotos

Hardcover: pages.
Publisher: Gründ (1 de noviembre de 1992)
Language: Français

 

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Encyclopédie Illustrée Intruments de Musique (Européens) by Bohuslav Cizek / Cécile Boiffin

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Publisher: Editions Gründ
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European musical instruments by Harrison, Frank Ll., 1905- / Rimmer, Joan.

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: 210 pages.
Publisher: New York: W.W. Norton, c1964.
Language:

 

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Glosario de Instrumentos musicales by Jorge Luis Rozemblun

Book description
Glosario con más de 20.000 entradas.

: 512 pages.
Publisher: Ediciones Akal, S.A.; Edición: 1 (26 de septiembre de 2011)
Language: Castellano

 

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Guide des Instruments Anciens by

Book description
This package includes a beautiful presentation booklet, over 200 pages long and abundantly illustrated, as well as eight CDs of recorded examples of the instruments that shed new light upon major periods of music history. A perfect synthesis of the music lover's thirst for knowledge with the sheer pleasure of hearing these historical instruments, this is an affordable instructional tool for teachers--the perfect way to introduce students to historical instruments!

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Publisher: Ricercar
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Historia de los instrumentos musicales by Anthony Baines, José M. Martín Triana (Traductor)

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Publisher: Madrid: Taurus, 1990.
Language: Castellano

 

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Historia de los instrumentos musicales by Mary Remnant

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Tapa blanda: 264 pages.
Publisher: Ma non Troppo
Language:

 

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Instruments à cordes et musiciens dans l'empire romain. étude historique et archéologique (IIe siècle av. JC - Ve siécle ap. J-C) by Christophe Vendryes

Book description
Préface de Annie Bélis ; ouvrage publié avec le concours de l'Université de Bretagne-Sud.

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Publisher: Paris ; Montreal: L'Harmattan, D.L.1999.
Language:

 

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Instruments of the Middle Age and Renaissance [Audio CD] by David Munrow (Artist)

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Publisher: Virgin Veritas
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Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance by David Munrow, foreword by André Previn.

Book description
Piano, Brass, Cornett, Tabor, Bagpipes, Clavichord, Harp, Lyre, Rebec, Lute, Mandora, Dulcimer, Gittern, Citrole, Crumhorn, Harpsichord, Virginals, Spinet, Horn, Sackbutt

: pages.
Publisher: Oxford University Press (1977)
Language:

 

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Instruments of the Middle Ages and Renaissance by David Munrow, foreword by André Previn.

Book description
Piano, Brass, Cornett, Tabor, Bagpipes, Clavichord, Harp, Lyre, Rebec, Lute, Mandora, Dulcimer, Gittern, Citrole, Crumhorn, Harpsichord, Virginals, Spinet, Horn, Sackbutt

Paperback: 98 pages.
Publisher: London: Oxford University Press, Music Department, 1976.
Language: English

 

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L'Encyclopédie. Art De Charpente. (Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication.) by Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert

Book description

Paperback: 80 pages.
Publisher: Art Stock (May 2002)
Language: Français

 

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L'Encyclopédie. Ebeniste - Menusier. (Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication.) by Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert

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Paperback: 96 pages.
Publisher: Art Stock (May 2002)
Language:

 

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L'Encyclopédie. Lutherie. (Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication.) by Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert

Book description
Edición facsímil del apartado dedicado a la lutheria de la famosa enciclopedia de Diderot y D'alambert, donde se recogía todo el saber y el conocimiento de la Francia del S. XVIII. Contiene dibujos de instrumentos, herramientas de luthier y descripciones de las láminas.

Paperback: pages.
Publisher: Inter Livres
Language: Français

 

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L'Encyclopédie. Lutherie. (Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication.) by Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert

Book description
Edición facsímil del apartado dedicado a la lutheria de la famosa enciclopedia de Diderot y D'alambert, donde se recogía todo el saber y el conocimiento de la Francia del S. XVIII. Contiene dibujos de instrumentos, herramientas de luthier y descripciones de las láminas.

Paperback Softcover: 80 pages.
Publisher: Biblioteque de l'Image
Language: Français

 

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L'Encyclopédie. Petits Metiers du Bois. (Recueil de Planches, sur les sciences, les arts liberaux, et les arts mechaniques, avec leur explication.) by Denis Diderot & Jean D'Alembert

Book description

Paperback: 80 pages.
Publisher: Art Stock (May 2002)
Language: Français

 

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Les instruments de musique du monde entier by Diagram Group

Book description
Une encyclopédie illustrée conçue par Diagram Group.

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Publisher: Paris: Albin Michel, 1978.
Language:

 

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Lexikon Deutscher Klavierbauer by Hubert Henkel

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Paperback: 734 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: Deutsch

 

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Lexikon Deutscher Zulieferbetriebe für die Klavierindustrie by Hubert Henkel

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: 316 pages.
Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: Deutsch

 

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Los instrumentos de la música afrocubana Vol. 1 + Vol. 2 by Fernando Ortiz 1881-1969.

Book description
Contiene: Vol.1 - Vol.2. Mucho texto, Parece todo percusión.

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Publisher: Madrid: Música Mundana, D.L.1996.
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Los instrumentos musicales by Francisco Blasco Vercher / Vicente Sanjosé Huguet

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Universidad de Valencia. Servicio de Publicaciones.

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Publisher: Valencia: Universitat, Servei de Publicacions, 1994.
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Los Instrumentos Musicales en el Mundo by François-René Tranchefort, Carmen Hernández Molero (traductora)

Book description
La importancia dada a las civilizaciones extra-europeas, relegadas hasta hace poco al ámbito de la etnomusicología, y el rechazo de la segregación de la música «popular» respecto a la música «culta» permiten conceder el debido espacio a los instrumentos primitivos, tradicionales y folklóricos. Renunciando al objetivo enciclopédico de establecer un inventario exhaustivo, el autor selecciona los instrumentos más característicos dentro de cada «familia» conocida.

Rústica con solapas: 369 pages.
Publisher: Alianza Editorial ( Colección ALIANZA MÚSICA / Madrid )
Language:

 

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Los instrumentos musicales en el siglo XVI. Primer encuentro Tomás Luis de Victoria y la Música Española del Siglo XVI. Ávila 1993 by Cristina Bordas Ibáñez / Alfonso de Vicente

Book description
Encuentro Tomás Luis de Victoria y la música española del siglo XVI (1. Mayo 1993. Avila)

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Publisher: Fundación Cultural Sta. Teresa / Ávila
Language: Castellano

 

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Los Intrumentos Musicales (láminas) by Luis Rodriguez de Robles, Rocío Dominguez

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Publisher: Real Musical
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Musica getutscht. a treatise on musical instruments (1511) by Sebastian Virdung / Beth Bullard (translator, editor)

Book description
Musica getutscht (Basel, 1511) is the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments in the West. Written by a priest and chapel singer named Sebastian Virdung, it provided rudimentary instruction on playing three instruments: the clavichord, the lute and the recorder. This early 'do-it-yourself' manual of instruction not only tells us about music-making in that era, it also illumines other aspects of society in the years just before the Reformation. Its author communicates in a popular style, choosing a mixture of media: a written text in the guise of an informal conversation, coupled with woodcut illustrations and visual aids. Enthusiasts of early music and its performance as well as historians of art, society and the German language will welcome Beth Bullard's substantial introduction and annotations, which help explain the text of this important work and its place in intellectual history.

Hardcover: 288 pages.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Language: English

 

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Musical Instrument Makers of New York. A Directory of the Eighteenth-And Nineteenth-Century Urban Craftsmen by Nancy Groce

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: 220 pages.
Publisher: Pendragon Pr (October 1991)
Language:

 

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Musical Instruments from A to Z by Bobbie Kalman, Alphabasics

Book description
As an easy-to-read introduction to music, this ABC book showcases a broad assortment of instruments explaining their history and how they are played. Full color.

Paperback: 32 pages.
Publisher: Crabtree Publishing Company (October 1, 1997)
Language:

 

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Musical Instruments of the World. An Illustrated Encyclopedia with more than 4000 original drawings by Susan Sturrock,Linda Proud,Roger Kohn, Diagram Group

Book description
Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments-and music-from primitive whistles to electric guitars. Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration. Most extraordinary is the range of instruments included: orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on geographical distribution and historical periods.

: pages.
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Co. Inc.
Language:

 

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Musical Instruments of the World. An Illustrated Encyclopedia with more than 4000 original drawings by Susan Sturrock,Linda Proud,Roger Kohn, Diagram Group

Book description
Using a completely visual approach, this ultimate reference has over 4,000 drawings showcasing the evolution of instruments-and music-from primitive whistles to electric guitars. Exquisite illustrations accompany each entry, with painstaking detail and attention to structure, function, and decoration. Most extraordinary is the range of instruments included: orchestral, popular, classical, ancient, and folk. Classed by family groups, they are cross-referenced with material on geographical distribution and historical periods.

Paperback: 320 pages.
Publisher: Facts on File; New Ed edition
Language: English

 

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On concepts and classifications of musical instruments by Margaret J. Kartomi

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Publisher: University of Chicago Press, cop. 1990.
Language:

 

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Syntagma musicum. Band II, De organographia Wolfenbüttel 1619. Aufl. by Michael Praetorius, 1571-1621.

Book description
Impreso en letra gótica. Reproducción facsimilar de la ed. publicada con el tít. de "Syntagmatis musici" por Wolfenbüttel, 1619.

: pages.
Publisher: Kassel [etc.]: Bärenreiter, 1996.
Language: Deutsch

 

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The Complete Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments by Bert Oling, Heinz Wallisch

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This book is one that you might expect to find buried in the books section of a discount club superstore, along with picture books on dogs and cats, plants, flowers and birds, World War II, Corvettes and Ferraris and other assorted planes, trains and automobiles, and what-have-you. And that is precisely where I happened to stumble across it while recently "weekend shopping." However, I don't think it particularly likely that the typical Amazon.com shopper looking for such a book will trip over it here, except by accident. So perhaps my thoughts on the book will bring it some additional customer exposure. It is not bad for what it is, it is lavishly illustrated (although not of "coffee table book" size), and it is certainly inexpensive enough.

Hardcover: 256 pages.
Publisher: Chartwell Books (February 2004)
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The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments (3 volume set) by Stanley Sadie, (editor)

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La monumental obra publicada en su primera edición en 1984 por la Oxford University se está renovando. Sus editores buscan ampliar y adaptar sus contenidos a los cambios tecnológicos y estéticos acaecidos durante este cuarto de siglo.

Hardcover: 2788 pages.
Publisher: London: Macmillan Press ; New York, NY: Grove's Dictionaries of Music, 1984.
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The New Grove dictionary of musical instruments (3 volume set) by Stanley Sadie, (editor)

Book description
La monumental obra publicada en su primera edición en 1984 por la Oxford University se está renovando. Sus editores buscan ampliar y adaptar sus contenidos a los cambios tecnológicos y estéticos acaecidos durante este cuarto de siglo.

Hardcover: 2701 pages.
Publisher: Macmillan Press (January 2, 1985)
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The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments by Anthony Baines

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Anthony C. Baines provides a comprehensive guide to the astonishing variety of Western and non-Western musical instruments. Each entry in this lavishly illustrated book offers a concise description of the instrument, as well as a wealth of information on such subjects as playing techniques, harmonics and circular breathing, the sound of an instrument, acoustics, pitch, an instrument's use within the orchestral repertoire or, for ethnomusicological instruments, within ritual, and significant developments in its history. Baines covers a vast array of instruments, from the common cowbell, to the Red-hot fountain pen (a novelty instrument of the 1930s), to the Celtic harp. About the Author Anthony Baines is the retired Curator of the Bate Collection of Historical Instruments in the University of Oxford. The author of several books and articles on instruments, he co-founded the Galpin Society, formed in 1946 to promote the study of musical instruments, and edited its journal 1956-63, and from 1971.

: 416 pages.
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Reprint edition (November 12, 1992)
Language: English

 

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The World Encyclopedia of Musical Instruments by Max Wade-Matthews

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A comprehensive encyclopedia of musical instruments, covering all sections of the orchestra: strings woodwind and brass, percussion, keyboards and voice as well as historical rare and non Western instruments.

Hardcover: 256 pages.
Publisher: Lorenz Books
Language: English

 

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The World of Baroque and Classical musical instruments by Jeremy Montagu

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: 136 pages.
Publisher: The Overlook Press; Hardcover edition (June 29, 1979)
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The World of Baroque and Classical musical instruments by Jeremy Montagu

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Publisher: Newton Abbot [etc.]: David and Charles, 1979.
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The World of Medieval and Renaissance musical instruments by Jeremy Montagu

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Publisher: Newton Abbot: David and Charles, 1980.
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The World of Medieval and Renaissance musical instruments by Jeremy Montagu

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Hardcover: 136 pages.
Publisher: The Overlook Press; 1St Edition edition (October 25, 1976)
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World Musical Instruments by Maria Da Gandra, Maaike Van Neck

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This book is an extraordinary pictorial dictionary of musical instruments from around the world, containing over 1500 drawings. Each instrument has been selected to provide a balanced historical overview of musical development: aerophones, idiophones, membranophones, chordophones, mechanical and electrical instruments are all equally represented. All of the drawings have been created specifically for the details of features such as strings, frets and keys, together with characteristic decorative patterns, have been painstakingly reproduced. World Musical Instruments will serve both as a source of information and as an object of fascination for: scholars, musicians, artists and designers. The accompanying CD-ROM with high-resolution jpeg illustrations of all the instruments provides the reader with an invaluable resource.

: 223 pages.
Publisher: Pepin Press (January 2008)
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