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The Musica instrumentalis deudsch of Martin Agricola : a treatise on musical instruments, 1529 and 1545
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- ISBN: 0521366402
- ISBN: 9780521366403
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xx, 194 pages : illustrations ; 18 x 25 cm. - Publisher: Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, ©1994.
Content descriptions
| General Note: | Translation of the 1529 and 1545 eds. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Preface -- Instrumental Music in German, 1529 -- 1 Wind instruments blown with human breath (starting p. 5) -- 2 Wind instruments blown by bellows (starting p. 17) -- 3 Transcribing vocal notation into keyboard tablature (starting p. 19) -- 4 String instruments with keyboards (starting p. 26) -- 5 String instruments with frets (starting p. 29) -- 6 Transcribing vocal notation into lute tablature (starting p. 35) -- 7 Selecting and tuning lute strings (starting p. 41) -- 8 The first type of fiddles (starting p. 44) -- 9 The second type of fiddles (starting p. 47) -- 10 The third type of fiddles (starting p. 49) -- 11 Transcribing vocal notation into tablature for fiddles and other monophonic instruments (starting p. 51) -- 12 String instruments with neither keyboards nor frets, but with many courses of strings (starting p. 54) -- 13 String instruments with neither keyboards nor frets, but with one, two or three courses of strings (starting p. 55) -- 14 Instruments made of sounding metal and other substances (starting p. 57) -- Instrumental Music in German, 1545 -- 1 Preface; wind instruments (starting p. 67) -- 2 Fiddles; epilogue on ornamentation (starting p. 95) -- 3 The lute and monochord (starting p. 112) -- 4 The Pythagorean proportions; tuning organ pipes and bells (starting p. 126) -- 5 The harp, psaltery, xylophone and dulcimer (starting p. 139) -- App. 1 Table of woodcut illustrations in Agricola's Musica instrumentalis deudsch (1529) derived from Virdung's Musica getutscht (1511) (starting p. 145) -- App. 2 Pitches cited in the 1529 and 1545 editions of Musica instrumentalis deudsch, along with designations in letter-symbols (starting p. 147) -- App. 3 Composite transcription of the fingering charts for recorders and related instruments on fols. 9-10 of the 1529 edition (starting p. 149) -- App. 4 Composite transcription of the fingering charts for Swiss flutes on fols. 13[superscript v]-14[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 150) -- App. 5 Transcription of the fingering chart for the small recorder with four holes on fol. 15[superscript v] of the 1529 edition and fol. 23 of the 1545 edition (starting p. 151) -- App. 6 Recto of the foldout, showing notes and rests in vocal notation and tablature, cited on fol. 25[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 152) -- App. 7 Verso of the foldout, showing a musical example in both vocal notation and tablature, cited on fol. 25[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 153) -- App. 8 Transcription of both types of notation on the verso of the foldout cited on fol. 25[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 154) -- App. 9 Table derived from the diagram of the old lute tablature on fol. 36[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 155) -- App. 10 Table derived from the diagram of letters showing octaves in the old lute tablature on fol. 37[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 156) -- App. 11 Recto of the foldout, showing a musical example in both mensural notation and tablature, cited on 37[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 157) -- App. 12 Transcription of the mensural notation and tablature on the recto of the foldout cited on fol. 37[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 158) -- App. 13 Verso of the foldout, showing a musical example in new lute tablature, cited on fol. 37[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 159) -- App. 14 Transcription of the tablature on the verso of the foldout cited on fol. 37[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 160) -- App. 15 Table derived from the diagram of mensural notation and new and old lute tablature on fol. 38 of the 1529 edition (starting p. 161) -- App. 16 Transcription of the setting of 'Ach Gott, vom Himmel sieh darein' in new lute tablature on fols. 38[superscript v]-40 of the 1529 edition (starting p. 162) -- App. 17 The foldout, showing how to tune the strings of the lute by octaves, cited on fol. 42[superscript v] of the 1529 edition (starting p. 163) -- App. 18 Table derived from the diagram on the foldout cited on fol. 42[superscript v] of the 1529 edition and the foldout cited on fol. 59 of the 1545 edition (starting p. 164) -- App. 19 Transcription of the musical example in both mensural notation and tablature on fols. 52[superscript v] and 53 of the 1529 edition (starting p. 165) -- App. 20 Composite transcription of the fingering charts for recorders and related instruments on fols. 20, 21 and 22 of the 1545 edition (starting p. 166) -- App. 21 Composite transcription of the fingering charts for Swiss flutes on fols. 26[superscript v], 27[superscript v], 28 and 30[superscript v]-31[superscript v] of the 1545 edition (starting p. 167) -- App. 22 Table of intervals derived from the instructions for measuring off the necks of the large Italian fiddle, the Polish fiddle and the small three-string, unfretted fiddle on fols. 41-42 and 49[superscript v] of the 1545 edition (starting p. 168) -- App. 23 Table of intervals derived from the instructions for setting frets on the neck of the lute on fol. 53 of the 1545 edition (starting p. 168) -- App. 24 The foldout, showing how to tune the strings of the lute by octaves, cited on fol. 59 of the 1545 edition (starting p. 169) -- App. 25 Transcription of the foldout, showing the Pythagorean method of setting notes on the monochord, cited on fol. 63[superscript v] of the 1545 edition (starting p. 170) -- App. 26 Table of intervals derived from the instructions for setting notes on the monochord according to two methods: (1) as presented on fols. 61[superscript v]-63 of the 1545 edition; and (2) as presented on the foldout cited on fol. 63[superscript v], and on fols. 64 and 64[superscript v] of the 1545 edition (starting p. 171) -- App. 27 Transcription of the foldout, showing the dimensions of organ pipes, cited on fol. 75[superscript v] of the 1545 edition (starting p. 173) -- Notes (starting p. 174) -- Index (starting p. 193) |
| Language Note: | Translation from the German of the 1529 and 1545 editions. |
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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| Lummi Library | ML 171 .M87 1994 | 022216 | Stacks | Available | - |