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9780837118840 | Praeger Pub Text, November 17, 1969, cover price $134.00

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Product Description: The 1723 Il Gabinetto Armonica, famous collection of copperplates by van Westerhout, shows every important instrument of the day in exceptional detail — organs, harpsichords, violins, horns, drums, etc. — plus folk instruments of Europe and the Orient...read more

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9780486211794 | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1964, cover price $11.95 | About this edition: The 1723 Il Gabinetto Armonica, famous collection of copperplates by van Westerhout, shows every important instrument of the day in exceptional detail — organs, harpsichords, violins, horns, drums, etc.

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Studies the methods, instruments, and processes involved in the creation, reception and duplication of sound (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780844626802 | 2 edition (Peter Smith Pub Inc, June 1, 1966), cover price $15.75

Paperback:

9780486217697, titled "Music, Physics and Engineering" | Dover Pubns, June 1, 1967, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Studies the methods, instruments, and processes involved in the creation, reception and duplication of sound

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Step-by-step illustrated instructions to making a wide range of percussion, wind and stringed instruments from xylophones to harps with instructions for playing and examples of music

School and Library:

9780807569580 | Albert Whitman & Co, June 1, 1970, cover price $7.50 | About this edition: Instructions for making and playing percussion, wind, and stringed instruments.

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Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

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9780781200905, titled "A Dictionary of Foreign Musical Terms and Handbook of Orchestral Instruments" | Reprint Services Corp, May 1, 1988, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.
9780403013890 | Reprint edition (Scholarly Pr, January 1, 1972), cover price $79.00 | About this edition: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality.

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The numbers one to ten are introduced as various musical instruments arrive for the band parade.

Hardcover:

9780875991788 | S G Phillips, March 1, 1972, cover price $16.95 | About this edition: The colorful instruments and musicians of a marching band introduce youngsters to the number system

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In addition to describing the features and functions of the varied orchestral instruments, the author provides young people with hints on building a home listening library

Hardcover:

9780395177129 | Revised edition (Houghton Mifflin, November 1, 1973), cover price $13.95 | About this edition: Describes various instruments and their function in the orchestra.

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Partch explains the philosophy of composition that underlies the forty-three tone works and instruments he has created (view table of contents)

Hardcover:

9780306715976 | 2 edition (Da Capo Pr, August 1, 1974), cover price $66.00

Paperback:

9780306801068 | Da Capo Pr, September 1, 1979, cover price $22.00 | About this edition: Partch explains the philosophy of composition that underlies the forty-three tone works and instruments he has created

Describes the origins, historical development, and appearance of twenty-four orchestral instruments from the violin to the tuba

Library:

9780688513962 | William Morrow & Co, April 1, 1975, cover price $9.12 | About this edition: Describes the origins, historical development, and appearance of twenty-four orchestral instruments from the violin to the tuba

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Explores the origin, development, physical characteristics, and musical use of pre-seventeenth-century woodwind, keyboard, brass, string, and percussion instruments

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9780193213210 | Oxford Univ Pr, July 1, 1976, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Explores the origin, development, physical characteristics, and musical use of pre-seventeenth-century woodwind, keyboard, brass, string, and percussion instruments

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Through an in-depth study of instruments and illustrations from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the author pieces together information on instruments available to early musicians and the religious and secular purposes for which they were used

Hardcover:

9780879510459 | Viking Pr, October 1, 1976, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Through an in-depth study of instruments and illustrations from the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, the author pieces together information on instruments available to early musicians and the religious and secular purposes for which they were used

Introduces a wide variety of musical instruments and explains how they produce their sounds.

Hardcover:

9780800881696 | Taplinger Pub Co, January 1, 1977, cover price $9.95 | About this edition: Interesting details on the instruments in each section of the classical orchestra are included as well as descriptions of the history, repertoire, and method of playing all musical instruments

Provides a physical and musical description of each of the orchestral instruments, plots the development of the modern orchestra, and explains the properties of sound

Hardcover:

9780193213524 | 2 har/cas edition (Oxford Univ Pr, December 1, 1977), cover price $34.95

Paperback:

9780193213500 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1977), cover price $4.75
9780193213517 | 2 edition (Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1977), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Provides a physical and musical description of each of the orchestral instruments, plots the development of the modern orchestra, and explains the properties of sound

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Discusses the wide range of classical, pop, and mechanical music and the instruments used in music-making.

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9780689500961 | Macmillan Pub Co, July 1, 1977, cover price $8.95 | About this edition: Describes the various ancient and modern musical instruments, explains musical notation, surveys the history and different styles of music, and offers brief accounts of the work of famous composers

Surveys the development of instrumentation and examines the history, construction, use, and methods of playing various stringed, woodwind, brass, free reed, percussion, and modern mechanical instruments

Hardcover:

9780312555832 | Palgrave Macmillan, April 1, 1978, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Surveys the development of instrumentation and examines the history, construction, use, and methods of playing various stringed, woodwind, brass, free reed, percussion, and modern mechanical instruments

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Surveys musical styles and describes the construction and use of keyboard, percussion, brass, string, and wind instruments during the early baroque, high baroque, and classical eras between 1600 and 1800

Hardcover:

9780879510893 | Viking Pr, June 1, 1979, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Surveys musical styles and describes the construction and use of keyboard, percussion, brass, string, and wind instruments during the early baroque, high baroque, and classical eras between 1600 and 1800

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Dr. Benade, an accomplished flutist and nuclear physicist, tells how music is formed by pianos, violins, trumpets, oboes, clarinets, flutes, saxophones and many other instruments. In addition, the reader is introduced to the evolution of various instruments, and Dr. Benade provides instructions for building a trumpet or a clarinet.

Hardcover:

9780313207716 | Greenwood Pub Group, June 1, 1979, cover price $36.95 | About this edition: Dr.

Paperback:

9780486273310 | Reprint edition (Dover Pubns, December 15, 1992), cover price $12.95

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Discusses the eighteen principal instruments that make up the modern orchestra, explaining how they are played, their historical development, the nature of sound, and the layout of the orchestra in the score

Hardcover:

9780442233587 | Van Nostrand Reinhold, April 1, 1980, cover price $18.95 | About this edition: Discusses the eighteen principal instruments that make up the modern orchestra, explaining how they are played, their historical development, the nature of sound, and the layout of the orchestra in the score

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Illustrates and describes string, keyboard, woodwind, brass, percussion, and electronic instruments and traces their development

Hardcover:

9780879511265 | Overlook Pr, May 1, 1981, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Illustrates and describes string, keyboard, woodwind, brass, percussion, and electronic instruments and traces their development

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Discusses a variety of musical instruments and presents directions for making and playing them.

Hardcover:

9780316921114 | Little Brown & Co, May 1, 1981, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of activities and information about what makes music, how to build one's own instruments, and how to play the instruments one builds

A guide to all aspects of music covers the various instruments and their development, the history of classical and popular music, and the music business
By Keith Spence (editor) and Giles Swayne

Hardcover:

9780026128704 | Macmillan Pub Co, November 1, 1981, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: A guide to all aspects of music covers the various instruments and their development, the history of classical and popular music, and the music business

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Product Description: Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician

Hardcover:

9780300026313 | Yale Univ Pr, October 1, 1982, cover price $37.50 | About this edition: Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician

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