Author: Winternitz, Emanuel
Title: Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, burgundy dust jacket, bw illustrated with black and white lettering, xxv, 241 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Contents include: Part I : Roots and growth : musical environment, traditions and trends, musical friends, exchange of ideas. Musical life in Florence and Milan ; Gaffurius and Pacioli ; Gusnasco and Migliorotti -- Part II : The performer : improviser, teacher of music, organizer of stage plays and entertainments. The lira da braccio ; The mystery of the skull lyre ; Feste, theater and other entertainments -- Part III : The thinker : scientist, experimenter and pioneer in acoustics, inventor of new and fantastic instruments. Research on acoustics ; New string instruments and the viola organistica ; Melodic and chordal drums, other membranophones, and tunable bells ; Toys and folk instruments ; Wind instruments : the glissando flute, key mechanisms for wind and new bellows ; The paragone : the role of music in the comparison of the arts. Good/Good (light foxing to block. Pages 67-72 have some foxing/staining along page edges but pages are otherwise clear. Dust jacket has light shelf wear.) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Da Vinci, Leonardo ; ;
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Title: Leonardo Da Vinci As a Musician
Description: New Haven, Yale University Press, 1982. Hardcover. Burgundy cloth boards with gilt spine lettering, burgundy dust jacket, bw illustrated with black and white lettering, xxv, 241 pp, profusely illustrated in bw. Contents include: Part I : Roots and growth : musical environment, traditions and trends, musical friends, exchange of ideas. Musical life in Florence and Milan ; Gaffurius and Pacioli ; Gusnasco and Migliorotti -- Part II : The performer : improviser, teacher of music, organizer of stage plays and entertainments. The lira da braccio ; The mystery of the skull lyre ; Feste, theater and other entertainments -- Part III : The thinker : scientist, experimenter and pioneer in acoustics, inventor of new and fantastic instruments. Research on acoustics ; New string instruments and the viola organistica ; Melodic and chordal drums, other membranophones, and tunable bells ; Toys and folk instruments ; Wind instruments : the glissando flute, key mechanisms for wind and new bellows ; The paragone : the role of music in the comparison of the arts. Good/Good (light foxing to block. Pages 67-72 have some foxing/staining along page edges but pages are otherwise clear. Dust jacket has light shelf wear.) .
Keywords: European Artists ; Da Vinci, Leonardo ; ;
Price: US$ 35.00 Seller: Kevin Mullen, Bookseller
- Book number: 179682
- Book number: 179682
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