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Stradivari / Stewart Pollens.
Van Pelt - Albrecht Music Library ML424.S8 P655 2010
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Pollens, Stewart.
- Series:
- Musical performance and reception
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Stradivari, Antonio, approximately 1644-1737.
- Stradivari, Antonio.
- Violin makers--Italy--Biography.
- Violin makers.
- Violin--History.
- Violin.
- History.
- Italy.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- xiii, 335 pages, 16 pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 29 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 322-328) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780521873048
- 0521873045
- OCLC:
- 456838759
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