Musical Instruments

This book talks about the development of musical instruments around the world - how they are built, how they are played, and the music that they create.

Preface

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An Historical Overview The origin of the instruments/ New functions for an everyday object /signals, information, and messages/ Musical instruments and spiritualism/ The variety of strings/ De Organographia/ Inflatilia, or instruments that are blown/ Grouping by threes/ Names, terms, curiosities/ Observation and description

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Music Education

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A Musical Taxonomy Hornbostel and Sachs/ The system in practice/ Rattles, gongs, and castanets /Drumskins and drumbeats/ Strings in harmony/ Blowing hot air?

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Keyboard Instruments With white and black keys/ The piano-An orchestra for one player/ A wooden zither with a striking mechanism/ Ever bigger, ever louder/ Electric piano and digital piano/ Pianos for the living room, the barroom, and the concert hall/ Piano music/ The harpsichord/ The clavichord/ Clavichord and harpsichord music/ The organ/ keys, air and pipes/ Bars and wires/ Flue stops and reed stops/ Organ music/ Hammond Organ to Soundmachine

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Instrument Making

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String Instruments Stretched strings/ The Strings/ From dance fiddle to violin/ Construction/ Change of musical function/ The violin family/ Gambas/ String repertoire/ Plucked, not bowed/ The guitar/ The lute: An instrument of the world/ Mandolin, balalakia/ The harp/ The Celtic Harp/ In the orchestra/ Arched boards/ Music for plucked string instruments

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Soloists and Ensembles

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Wind Instruments Elementary musical experience/ The breath of the soul/ The flutes/ The recorder/ The flute traversiere/ Notched flutes/ All nuance--The shakuhachi/ Flute music/ Vibrating reeds: Oboes and clarinets/ Bagpipes, crumhorns, and shawms/ The oboe/ The bassoon/ Shanai and zurna/ The reed's the thing-clarinets/ Adolphe Sax's invention/ The Sardinian launeddas/ Clarinet music/ Cups not reeds--Trumpets/ Acoustical properties/ Keys, slides,and valves/ kettledrums and trumpets/ The horn/ The trombone/ Music for the brass instruments

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Bizarre and Unusual Instruments

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Drums Musical beat-keepers/ A skin stretched over a kettle--The timpanum/ Construction/ Playing technique/ Two heads are better that one? The drum/Drums in Arabic and Indian music/ Drums for incantation/ Barrels and hourglasses/ The drum, the instrument of Africa/ Hollow logs with sound holes/ percussion: Drums in western music/ Music for percussion instruments

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The Social and Cultural Context of Instruments

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Self-Sounding Instruments Self-Sounding Instruments/ The xylophone/ Something to laugh about?/Interrupted tradition/ Revival/ The xylophone in Africa/ Interlocking/ Mbira-zanza/ Metal and bamboo / Gamelan/ Migrations/ Marimba and vibraphones/ The cymbal-Variable in attack/ Classic clappers-Castanets/Claves and whip/Shake and scrape/Bells,bells,bells

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Glossary

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Selected Bibliography

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Instrument Museums

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Subject Index

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Index of Names

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Picture Credits

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