The story of musical instruments from shepherd's pipe to symphony / by H. W. Schwartz.
| Author/creator | Schwartz, Harry W. |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | Garden City, NY : Doubleday, Doran & Company, Inc., 1938. |
| Description | xii pages, 1 leaf, 365 pages : illustrations, music, plates, diagrams ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Recipe for a symphony: ingredients and quantities -- How the orchestra grew: but opera blazed the trail -- The violin family: aristocrats of the orchestra -- The flute: a story of great inventions -- The double-reeds: the expatriated orientals -- The single-reeds: the ugly ducklings -- The saxophones: the scapegoats of jazz -- The trumpet and the cornet: sixty centuries of rivalry -- The French horns: graduates of the chase -- The trombone: the Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde of the musical world -- The tubas: the story of large families -- Percussion instruments: Tinkle! Jingle! Boom! Crash! -- Plucked and struck strings: the story of steel wire -- How music is made: the raw material. |
| LCCN | 38027356 |