Stewart Pollens (New York Metropolitan Museum of Art)

Stradivari

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Since the eighteenth century Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest of all violin makers. Stradivari provides a fascinating biography of this legendary maker, as well as a detailed study of the tools he used. Lavishly illustrated throughout, the book includes colour photographs of 16 famous Stradivari instruments.

Produktdetails

• Musical Performance and Reception
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 366
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Dezember 2013
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 286mm x 221mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 1370g
• ISBN-13: 9780521873048
• ISBN-10: 0521873045
• Artikelnr.: 28514986

Autorenporträt

Stewart Pollens served as the conservator of musical instruments at the Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1976 to 2006, where his duties included the restoration and maintenance of the museum's encyclopedic collection of over 5000 instruments.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. Historical background
2. Stradivari's workshop materials
3. The violin forms and patterns
4. Violin fittings and setup
5. The dance master's kit
6. The viola da gamba and viola d' amore
7. The lute
8. The mandola and mandolino
9. The guitar
10. The harp
11. The workshop
Appendices: 1. The Hill Bass-Bar collection
2. Thomas Salmon's 'The Theory of Musick Reduced to Arithmetical and Geometric Proportions' from Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London, 1705
3. A case study: The 'Messiah'
Color plates.