The Adventures of a Cello: Revised Edition, with a New Epilogue
- Author: Prieto, Carlos
- Translator: Murray, Elena C.
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Contents
- Foreword. The Adventures of a Cello and the Stories and Memories of Its Happy Owner (by Alvaro Mutis)
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction. The Origin and Purpose of This Book
- Part One. A Brief History of Violin Making
- Chapter 1. Observations on the Origin of Violins and Cellos
- Chapter 2. Amati, Stradivari, Guarneri del Gesu, and the Great Italian Violin Makers
- Part Two. The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello from 1720 to the Present
- Chapter 3. The Adventures of a Stradivari Cello: From Cremona in 1720 to New York in 1979
- Chapter 4. A Brief Autobiographical Note
- Chapter 5. Around the World with the Piatti
- Chapter 6. My Relationship with the Music and Musicians of Latin America, Spain, and Portugal
- Part Three. A Brief History of Music for Cello from the Time of Stradivari to the Present
- Chapter 7. The Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
- Chapter 8. From Beethoven to the End of the Nineteenth Century
- Chapter 9. The Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries: The Cello Comes of Age
- Epilogue
- Appendix 1. Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Excluding Ibero-America)
- Appendix 2. Some Principal Works for Cello from the Twentieth and Twenty-first Centuries (Spain, Portugal, and Latin America)
- Appendix 3. Carlos Prieto's Discography
- Appendix 4. Reviews of Concerts
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index