Musical Instruments & Instrumental Ensembles

English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists such as Wi...

Saint Lambert's Nouveau traité de l'accompagnement de clavecin, de l'orgue, et des autres instruments of 1707 supplements his earlier harpsichord t...

No European jazz musician has so enchanted the word as Django Reinhardt, the gypsy guitarist whose recording with Stephane Grappelly and the Hot Cl...

The term "viola bastarda" refers to both an instrument and a style of playing that is one of the crowning achievements of musical mannerism. The It...

" . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Mus...

". . . a major contribution to cornett research and belongs in the library of every cornettist." —Historic Brass Society". . . scrupulously detaile...

Long a symbol of American culture, the banjo actually originated in Africa before European-Americans adopted it. Karen Linn shows how the banjo--de...

". . . an extraordinary book, monumental and challenging . . . Buy this book and immerse yourself in it. You will enter a new world." —American Mus...

Named for a popular local fiddle tune, The Crooked Stovepipe is a rollicking, detailed, first-ever study of the indigenous fiddle music and social ...

"This is an essential book for those interested in renaissance instrumentation as well as for potential players." —Early Music Review"Sterling Scot...

"Information for when you travel. By country and city, you are guided to the best instrument collections in Europe. For each site is provided a sub...

This lavishly illustrated book treats the history of the piano from its invention in 1700 to the present in terms of its technology. Looking at the...

You do not have to be an organist to be blown away by the sound of the 'full organ' in St. Paul's, London; Notre Dame, Paris; or St. John the Divin...

Authorized by du Pré's husband, Daniel Barenboim, this is the fullest account yet of the life of the brilliant cellist, struck down in her prime by...

The work is the result of over thirty years of oral fieldwork among the last Gaels in Cape Breton, for whom piping fit unself-consciously into comm...

"Acoustic Guitar Styles" introduces the most popular traditional styles for the acoustic guitar. The step-by-step approach, using a small repertoir...

Brahms Among Friends identifies patterns of listening, performance, and composition among close friends of Johannes Brahms and explores how those p...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original pu...

For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its basic stren...

This carefully researched and definitive book recreates the magic of the greatest violinists in history. In three centuries, the solo performer pro...

Dennis Brain is recognized as perhaps the greatest horn player the world has known. He helped rescue the horn from the obscurity in which it had la...

The Great Cellists is a comprehensive and authoritative history of the lives and work of the cello's great performers and teachers, from the emerge...

This research guide is an annotated bibliography of sources dealing with the string quartet. This second edition is organized as in the original pu...

Following the earlier volumes in the Studies in Musical Genesis and Structure series, Mahler's Fourth Symphony is a study of origins of one of Mahl...

For many beginning-to-intermediate level guitarists, guitar tunings are a mystery. Everyone begins with "standard" tuning and knows its basic stren...

Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks. With t...

The violinist Jascha Heifetz (1901-1987) is considered among the most influential performers in history and still maintains a strong following amon...

Over the last century, developments in electronic music and art have enabled new possibilities for creating audio and audio-visual artworks. With t...

This book bridges a gap in existing scholarship by foregrounding the contribution of women to the nineteenth-century Lied. Building on the pioneeri...

The guitar occupies a unique position in the history of Western music. It has always enjoyed wide popularity as an instrument of popular music, yet...

The double bass - the preferred bass instrument in popular music during the 1960s - was challenged and subsequently superseded by the advent of a n...

During the twentieth century, electronic technology enabled the explosive development of new tools for the production, performance, dissemination a...

In Music Teachers' Values and Beliefs, Dwyer investigates the relationships between teachers, learners and music in music classrooms. Using Bourdie...

It is a truth universally acknowledged that Antonio Stradivari of Cremona (1644-1737) was the noblest of bowed wooden stringed instrument makers. H...

Sébastien Erard's (1752-1831) inventions have had an enormous impact on instruments and musical life and are still at the foundation of piano build...

Creative Health for Pianists: Concepts, Exercises & Compositions is a practical method book for musicians of all abilities. It provides a new w...

If you’ve ever wanted to make a guitar, you've probably been overwhelmed quickly. The Boxmaker’s Guitar Book takes you back to basics with the simp...

First Published in 2001. For three decades, Anthony Braxton has been alternately celebrated, dismissed, and attacked for his musical innovations. H...

This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as th...

Phonetics and Diction in Singing was first published in 1967. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books on...

"The guitar and American music are inexorably intertwined," writes James Sallis in The Guitar Players. He notes that "American music was built on t...

This collection of conversations with the Guarneri members explores all the most important facets of chamber-music playing.

This carefully-researched book is the culmination of over ten years of research by local musician and teacher, Eric Johnson. It traces the history ...

"The Art of Violin Making" is the major work for the craftsman, bringing into one volume a summary of essential information for the violin maker an...