In the Music Museum
Seeing, Hearing, and Understanding Historical Instruments
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP USA
- Date of Publication 2 September 2026
- ISBN 9780197804681
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages432 pages
- Size 235x156 mm
- Language English
- Illustrations 164 photographs 0
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Short description:
In the Music Museum presents an alternative view of Western classical music, as heard through historical instruments. It provides a fascinating guide to one hundred and fifty instruments preserved in eighty collections around the world. The book gives readers the analytical tools to look at, listen to, and think about historical instruments and to understand how this knowledge can in turn help us better appreciate music. The companion website has recordings and videos that showcase many of the instruments that are illustrated and discussed in the book.
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In the Music Museum presents an alternative view of Western classical music, as heard through historical instruments rather than musical works. It provides a fascinating guide to one hundred and fifty instruments preserved in eighty collections around the world. The instruments include the earliest or most representative examples of specific models or shed light on musical practice in a unique way. Some tell a particular story through their connection with individual musicians, famous or otherwise, while others are controversial or difficult to interpret.
The chapters give readers the analytical tools needed to look at, listen to, and think about historical instruments and to understand how this knowledge can in turn help us better appreciate music. The analysis of each instrument begins, as in a music museum, by looking at it: noting how to relate what one sees with how the instrument sounds, and how those sounds influenced how music was played. From a prehistoric seashell horn to an eighteenth-century clavichord, historical instruments are the objects that produced the music of the past, and as such they are of fundamental importance. The extensive companion website has recordings and videos that showcase many of the instruments that are illustrated and discussed in the book.
Table of Contents:
About the Companion Website
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Editorial Notes
1. Introduction: Listening to a Seashell
2. Keyboards: Classification and Timbre
3. Harpsichords: The Plucked String as a Sonic Ideal
4. Organs: Sacred and Profane
5. Clavichords: Private Music
6. Pianos: Dynamics and Touch
7. Harps and Lyres: Range, Chromaticism, and Gender
8. Lutes and Guitars: Patrician and Popular
9. Viols and Violins: Variations on a Bowed String
10. Flutes: Transforming Breath into Music
11. Single-Reed Instruments: Vibrating Cane
12. Double-Reed Instruments: From the Stables to the Concert Hall
13. High Brass Instruments: Harmonics of Ceremony and Battle
14. Horns: The Hero and the Hunt
15. Low Brass Instruments: The Sound of the Spirit World
16. Percussion: Resonance and Rhythm
Afterword
Bibliography
Index of Museums and Collections
General Index
