The crumhorn and other Renaissance windcap instruments : a contribution to Renaissance organology / Barra Boydell.

Author/creator Boydell, Barra
Format Book
Publication InfoBuren, The Netherlands : Frits Knuf, 1982.
Descriptionxxi, 458 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Subjects

Contents Part I: The crumhorn. The instrument -- Historical references and iconographical evidence -- Uncertain and incorrect references -- Original instruments and their typology. Surviving crumhorns ; Supplement (Lost ; Models ; Crumhorns of doubtful authenticity) ; Typology -- Jorg Wier of Memmingen -- The French cromorne in the early Baroque period. Historical references ; Towards an identification of the cromorne -- The origins and use of the crumhorn in the Renaissance. Possible antecedants and origins of the crumhorn ; The names used for crumhorns ; The social context of the crumhorn's use ; Music for crumhorns ; Crumhorns played without the windcap -- Part II: Other Renaissance windcap instruments. The cornamusa. Historical references ; Problems in identifying the cornamusa -- The windcap shawms. Iconographical sources ; Schreyerpfeifen (Historical references ; The identity of the Schreyerpfeife ; Surviving Schreyerpfeifen and related instruments) ; Hautbois de Poitou (Historical references) ; Cleron pastoral ; Miscellaneous and possible windcap shawms (Historical references) ; Rauschpfeifen, a case of mistaken identity (Historical uses of the name Rauschpfeife and cognates ; The meaning of "Rauschpfeifen") -- Miscellaneous and possible windcap instruments. Doppioni ; Kortholt ; Praetorius's Schreyerpfeifen/Schryari -- Concluding summary -- Appendix. The dolzaina. Towards an identification of the dolzaina.
General noteAbstracts in French and German.
General noteIncludes index.
Bibliography noteBibliography: pages 419-433.
LCCN 83225594
ISBN9060274245
ISBN9060274237 (wrappers)

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