| Description |
xiii, 335 pages, 16 pages of plates : facsimiles, illustration, music, portraits ; 29 cm. |
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Musical performance and reception
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Musical performance and reception.
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| Note |
Includes bibliographic references (pages 322-28) and index. |
| Contents |
Historical background -- Stradivari's workshop materials -- The violin forms and patterns -- Violin fittings and setup -- The dance master's kit -- The viola da gamba and viola d'amore -- The lute -- The mandola and mandolino -- The guitar -- The harp -- The workshop -- Appendices. The Hill bass-bar collection ; Thomas Salmon's "The theory of musick reduced to arithmetical and geometric proportions," from Philosophical transactions of the royal society of London (1705) ; A case study: the "Messiah" violin. |
| Subject |
Stradivari, Antonio, approximately 1644-1737.
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Stradivari, Antonio, approximately 1644-1737. |
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Violin makers -- Italy -- Biography.
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Violin makers. |
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Italy. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Subject |
Violin -- History.
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Violin. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| ISBN |
9780521873048 hardback |
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0521873045 hardback |
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