ABSTRACT
This is a collection of twenty-nine of the most influential articles and papers about medieval musical instruments and their repertory. The authors discuss the construction of the instruments, their playing technique, the occasions for which they performed and their repertory. Taken as a whole, they paint a very broad, as well as detailed, picture of instrumental performance during the medieval period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|84 pages
Classifications and Lists of Instruments
part II|72 pages
Keyboards
part III|134 pages
Part III: Plucked Strings
part IV|90 pages
Bowed Strings
chapter [18]|44 pages
Vedei and Geige—Fiddle and Viol: German String Traditions in the Fifteenth Century
part V|72 pages
Winds
part VI|64 pages
Repertory