From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century
- Author: Holman, Peter
- Author: Wainwright, Jonathan
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Contents
- Contents: Preface
- Introduction: From 'Renaissance' to 'Baroque'?, Jonathan P. Wainwright
- Baptiste's Hautbois: the metamorphosis from Shawm to Hautboy in France, 1620-70, Bruce Haynes
- A commentary on the letter by Michel de La Barre concerning the history of musettes and hautboys, Marc Ecochard
- The woodwind instruments of Richard Haka (1645/6-1705), Jan Bouterse
- Basstals or Curtoons: the search for a transitional Fagott, Graham Lyndon-Jones
- The iconographic background to the seventeenth-century recorder, Anthony Rowland-Jones
- The Renaissance flute in the 17th century, Nancy Hadden
- The flute at Dresden: ramifications for 18th-century woodwind performance in Germany, Mary Oleskiewicz
- How did 17th-century English violins really sound?, Peter Trevelyan
- The development of French lute style 1600-50, Matthew Spring
- The early Air de Cour, the Theorbo, and the Continuo principle in France, Jonathan Le Cocq
- From stops organical to stops of variety: the English organ from 1630 to 1730, Dominic Gwynn
- Upgrading from consorts to orchestra at the WA1/4rttemberg court, Samantha Owens
- From violin band to orchestra, Peter Holman
- Organological Gruyere, Jeremy Montagu. Workshop Reports: J.S. Bach's Actus tragicus: 'Gottes Zeit ist die allerbeste Zeit' (BWV 106), Andrew Parrott
- The French Baroque orchestra: Lully, Charpentier, Couperin, Graham Sadler. Bibliography
- Index.