From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century

by Peter Holman

Book Overview

Historians of instruments and instrumental music have long recognised that there was a period of profound change in the seventeenth century, when the consorts or families of instruments developed during the Renaissance were replaced by the new models of the Baroque period. Yet the process is still poorly understood, in part because each instrument has traditionally been considered in isolation, and changes in design have rarely been related to changes...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0754604039
• ISBN13: 9780754604037
• Release Date: July 2005
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 340 Pages
• Weight: 1.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.2"