
Syntagma Musicum II
De Organographia: Parts I and II
Michael Praetorius(Author)
Clarendon Press
Published on 17. January 1991
Book
Paperback/Softback
124 pages
978-0-19-816260-5 (ISBN)
Description
Over the last dozen or so years the musical landscape has been changed significantly by the revival of early instrumental music. People are now making and playing many Renaissance and early baroque instruments which until recently were not even mentioned in standard dictionaries. Praetorius's De Organographia, first published in 1618, can be called the book behind the revival. While it has long been an essential tool for musicologists, it is now exercising a wider, more popular appeal as the growing multitude of instrument makers and players seek to base its efforts on this documentation Praetorius has provided. De Organographia is beyond argument the most important period book on musical instruments ever to be written. No comparable work gives us the wide range, the clarity of description, and above all the scale drawings that we find in Praetorius.
Reviews / Votes
`in accuracy, readability, consistant integrity of style, and usefulness to the contemporary scholar of 17th-century studies, the new translation of Crookes is an extraordinary accomplishment ... a translation that brings Praetorius to life and makes his extraordinary scholarship vibrantly accessible to the modern reader.'Seventeenth Century News `combines imagination with painstaking detail in presenting a readable yet precise version of the complex language.'
Early Music News
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Illustrations
42 pp halftones
Dimensions
Height: 247 mm
Width: 189 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
357 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-19-816260-5 (9780198162605)
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Schweitzer Classification
Persons
Crookes is a musical instrument maker and literary critic
Content
Introduction; Translation; Commentary; Bibliography; Plates