Musica Getutscht - A Treatise on Musical Instruments (1511) By Sebastian Virdung

Klappentext This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual tells us about music-making in the years just before the Reformation. Zusammenfassung Musica getutscht (Basel! 1511) is the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments in the West. This early German 'do-it-yourself' manual not only tells us about music-making in that era! it also illumines other aspects of society in the years just before the Reformation. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; List of abbreviations; Part I. Translator's Introduction; 1. Why study Musica getutscht?; 2. A biography of Sebastian Virdung; 3. The publication history of Musica getutscht; 4. The offspring of Musica getutscht; Part II. Musica Getutscht: 5. A note on the translation; 6. Sebastian Virdung's Musica getutscht; Appendix. Transcriptions of documents pertaining to Sebastian Virdung and Musica getutscht; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

Product details

• Authors: Virdung Sebastian, Sebastian Virdung
• Assisted by: Beth Bullard (Editor), Beth Bullard (Translation)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 30.07.1993
• EAN: 9780521308304
• ISBN: 978-0-521-30830-4
• No. of pages: 288
• Series: Cambridge Energy Studies
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology