Stradivari /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Pollens, Stewart
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Series:Musical performance and reception.
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • Historical background
  • Stradivari's workshop materials
  • The violin forms and patterns
  • Violin fittings and setup
  • The dance master's kit
  • The viola da gamba and viola d'amore
  • The lute
  • The mandola and mandolino
  • The guitar
  • The harp
  • The workshop
  • Appendices. The Hill bass-bar collection ; Thomas Salmon's "The theory of musick reduced to arithmetical and geometric proportions," from Philosophical transactions of the royal society of London (1705) ; A case study: the "Messiah" violin.