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Description for Syntagma Musicum
paperback. This work, first published in 1618, is a detailed reference of musical instruments of the period. It will be of particular interest, in the light of the current revival in early instrumental music, to those making and playing Renaissance and early baroque instruments. Editor(s): Crookes, David Z. Series: Early Music Series. Num Pages: 124 pages, 42 pp halftones. BIC Classification: AVGC2; AVR. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 189 x 12. Weight in Grams: 332.
Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by the revival of early instrumental music. People are now making and playing many Renaissance and early baroque instruments which until recently were not even mentioned in standard dictionaries. Praetorius's De Organographia, first published in 1618, can be called the book behind the revival. While it has long been an essential tool for musicologists, it is now exercising a wider, more popular appeal as the growing multitude of instrument makers and players seek to base its efforts on this documentation Praetorius has provided. De Organographia is ... Read more
Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by the revival of early instrumental music. People are now making and playing many Renaissance and early baroque instruments which until recently were not even mentioned in standard dictionaries. Praetorius's De Organographia, first published in 1618, can be called the book behind the revival. While it has long been an essential tool for musicologists, it is now exercising a wider, more popular appeal as the growing multitude of instrument makers and players seek to base its efforts on this documentation Praetorius has provided. De Organographia is ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1991
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
124
Condition
New
Series
Early Music Series
Number of Pages
124
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780198162605
SKU
V9780198162605
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Ref
99-1
About Crookes
Crookes is a musical instrument maker and literary critic
Reviews for Syntagma Musicum
`in accuracy, readability, consistant integrity of style, and usefulness to the contemporary scholar of 17th-century studies, the new translation of Crookes is an extraordinary accomplishment ... a translation that brings Praetorius to life and makes his extraordinary scholarship vibrantly accessible to the modern reader.' Seventeenth Century News `combines imagination with painstaking detail in presenting a readable yet precise version of ... Read more