Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art

by Emanuel Winternitz

This book first appeared in 1967. In the years since then, it has spawned the new academic sub-discipline of musical iconology, which belongs equally to the histories of art and of music. Emmanuel Winternitz, who was for thirty-one years Curator of Musical Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of musical instruments. He is also an erudite historian of art. Combining these two interests...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0300023243
• ISBN13: 9780300023244
• Release Date: June 1979
• Publisher: Yale University Press
• Length: 356 Pages
• Weight: 2.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.0" x 10.0"