The stringed instruments of the Middle Ages, their evolution and development : a detailed and comprehensive history, with illustrations, of the evolution of the mediæval stringed musical instruments from their first appearance in the records of the earliest civilisations, through their gradual development in the Greek, Roman, and Christian eras down to more recent times / from the Danish of Hortense Panum.

Author/creator Panum, Hortense
Other author Pulver, Jeffrey, 1884-1984.
Format Musical Score
EditionEnglish edition / revised and edited by Jeffrey Pulver ; with over 400 illustrations.
Publication InfoLondon : William Reeves, Limited, [1939?]
Descriptionix, 511 pages : frontispiece, illustrations (including music) ; 23 cm
Subjects

Uniform titleMiddelalderens strengeinstrumenter og deres forløbere i oldtiden. English
Contents Book I. Stringed instruments without finger-board. Part I. Antiquity. The lyre family. The lyre in western Asia ; The lyre in Egypt ; The Greek lyre and kitara in Italy -- The harp family. The harp proper ; The angle harp (In Assyria ; In Egypt ; In Greece) ; The psaltery ; Harp-types in Greek literature -- Part II. The middle ages. Introduction -- The lyre and the true harp on the monuments. The lyre -- The true harp ; The harp among the Anglo-Saxons ; In Wales ; In the Scandinavian countries ; In other countries -- Irish traditional forms. The names applied to the lyre and the frame-harp ; The rotta of the Teutons ; The harp of the Teutons ; The harp among the ancient Germans ; The Anglo-Saxon hearp ; The harp among the Norsemen ; The harp of the mediaeval Norsemen ; Summary ; The Irish clarseth and the Welsh telyn ; Summary -- The psaltery. The psaltery in the near east ; The psaltery in mediaeval Europe (On the monuments ; In literature) ; Summary -- Book II. Stringed instruments with finger-board. Introduction. Classification and plan -- Part I. Antiquity. The monochord ; The monochord of antiquity ; The finger-board instruments on the ancient monuments (In western Asia ; In Egypt ; In Greece ; In Rome) ; The finger-board instruments in ancient Greek literature ; Summary -- Part II. The middle ages. Introduction. The mediaeval round lyre as a bowed instrument. On the monuments ; As a folk-instrument ; Summary -- The monastery monochord and its descendants. The Balk monochords (The tromba marina ; The Scheitholt family ; Summary) ; The keyboard monochords (The bowed instruments ; The clavichord ; Summary) -- Book III. Finger-board instruments with neck. Introduction and classification ; A short history of the bow -- Part I. The bowed instruments. With vaulted back (The Arabian rebab ; The mediaeval pear-shaped "lyre" ; The lyre in modern Greece ; The European rebec ; Summary) ; Instruments with flat back, ribs and neck (The fiddle type ; The guitar-fiddle ; Summary ; The name "Gigue" and "Fiddle") -- Part II. The plucked finger-board instruments. With vaulted back. The lute ; Instruments related to the lute (The mandora ; The mandoline ; The colascione) ; With flat back and ribs. The guitar ; The cittern -- Supplementary chapter. The bowed instruments of the Renaissance (Klein and Gross Geigen ; Lyra da braccio ; Viola da braccio ; Viola da gamba) ; The harpsichord ; Instrumental notation (German organ tablature ; The lute tablatures ; Guitar tablature ; Cittern tablature).
LanguageTranslation of Middelalderens strengeinstrumenter og deres forløbere i oldtiden.
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