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The Instruments of the Modern Orchestra and Early Records of the Precursors of the Violin Family, in Two Volumes, Vol. I- Modern Orchestral Instruments, 1910
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1ORCHESTRAL.
3THE INSTRUMENTS OF THE MODERN ORCHESTRA AND EARLY RECORDS OF THE PRECURSORS OF THE VIOLIN FAMILY. With over 500 Illustrations and Plates. By KATHLEEN SCHLESINGER. Two volumes. thick 8vo, cloth. Ready 1910.
5Vol. I. Modern Orchestral Instruments.
6Vol. II. Researches into and Records of the Remote Origin of the Violin Family. A Bibliography of Music and Archæology (English and Foreign) and copious Indices of the two volumes.
8The first volume deals with the instruments of the modern orchestra on a uniform plan, the necessary practical information being systematically arranged for each member without unnecessary technicalities, under the headings of Construction, Production of Sound, Compass, Quality of Tone, Possibilities, Origin, accompanied in each case by at least one illustration.
10The second volume is an excursion into the domain of archæology in quest of the remote origin of the violin family. The result of the magnificent work done by the various archæological societies in exploring and excavating the centres of the more ancient Oriental civilisations renders it necessary to reconsider the history of European music and musical instruments.
12This the author has done, and the conclusions arrived at are naturally in advance of all previous authorities.
14The copious Bibliography which is found at the end of the second volume has been compiled with the hope that it may prove suggestive to those engaged in original archæological research. Titles of certain works containing no illustrations of musical instruments have been indicated where this deficiency is counterbalanced by valuable references.
16The author is indebted to the following, whom, in many ways, have aided and encouraged her during the many years of laborious study and research, to the late A. J. Hipkins, to Messrs. Victor Mahillon, Arthur Hill, R. J. White, H. Grice, Algernon Rose, A. C. White, to Miss Bryant and Miss Mabel Goschen (Mrs. Gerard Cobb) for gifts or loans of photographs or drawings for the purposes of illustration, to the late Sir Thomas Brooke, to Professors Flinders Petrie and John Garstang, Messrs. O. M. Dalton, Ernest Leroux, Paul Dugardin, Heron de Villefosse, to the Rev Dr. Sinker (Trin. Coll., Cambridge) and the Rev. Père Delattre (Carthage), to Dr. Füh (St. Gallen), Herr W. Heeckel (Biebrich-am-Rhein), Victor Mahillon, Herr Ludwig Schweigut (of Carlsruhe), the late Dr. Stelzner, Messrs. Hawkes and Son, Rudall Carte and Co., Joseph Wallis and Co., Besson and Co., Boosey and Co., Köhler and Co., Hart and Son, Metzler and Co., Erard and Son, Broadwood and Son, Steinway and Co., Bechstein and Co., Pleyel, Wolff and Co., G. Potter and Co. (Aldershot), Novello and Co., Beare and Son.
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