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Language: en
Pages: 576
Authors: Bruce Haynes
Categories: Music
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This is the first in-depth survey of the oboe during its Golden Age, tracing the history of the instrument from its invention through its many mutations as it a
The Oboe
Language: en
Pages: 444
Authors: Geoffrey Vernon Burgess
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-01-01 - Publisher: Yale University Press

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The oboe, including its earlier forms the shawm and the hautboy, is an instrument with a long and rich history. In this book two distinguished oboist-musicologi
Performance Practice
Language: en
Pages: 552
Authors: Roland Jackson
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-10-23 - Publisher: Routledge

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Performance practice is the study of how music was performed over the centuries, both by its originators (the composers and performers who introduced the works)
The Pathetick Musician
Language: en
Pages: 361
Authors: Bruce Haynes
Categories: Music
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The Birth of the Orchestra
Language: en
Pages: 650
Authors: John Spitzer
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2004-04-29 - Publisher: OUP Oxford

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This book traces the emergence of the orchestra from 16th-century string bands to the 'classical' orchestra of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and their contemporarie