A Guide to Period Instruments

200 pages full colour book + 8 CD's in a magnificient Box
(8 CDs + 1 libro de 200 páginas)

Guide des instruments anciens = A Guide to Period Instruments = Leitfaden Durch Die Historischen Instrumente

Una guía de instrumentos de época: Historia, evolución y clasificaciones. Traducción al castellano disponible en www.diverdi.com.

Total time: 10 h 28 min

This Guide to Period Instruments endeavours to answer the questions that every lover of early music has about the instruments used in these periods of music history. Text and recorded excerpts describe the origin and the development of every musical instrument from the Middle Ages to the end of the 18th century and place them in their historical context. There is a completely new presentation booklet, over 200 pages long and abundantly illustrated, as well as eight CDs of recorded examples of the instruments that shed new light upon major periods of music history. These excerpts have been drawn from the Ricercar catalogue for the most part and are completed by new recordings made for the purpose as well as by material made available to us by other specialist recording labels. This Guide to Period Instruments is a perfect synthesis of the music lover?s thirst for knowledge with the sheer pleasure of hearing these historical instruments.

CONTENIDO:

Cd1. Moyen Age
Cd2. Danses de la Reinaissance
Cd3. Renaissance
Cd4. L'arte di diminuir
Cd5. La France au XVIIe siècle
Cd6. Bach et son temps
Cd7. Le style concertant
Cd8. Classicisme