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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      14 August 2009
      30 July 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511518324
      9780521308304
      9780521032773
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511518324
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.75kg, 288 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.454kg, 292 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
      Series:
      Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    Subjects:
    Medieval and Renaissance Music, Music, Music Performance
    Series:
    Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    Musica getutscht (Basel, 1511) is the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments in the West. Written by a priest and chapel singer named Sebastian Virdung, it provided rudimentary instruction on playing three instruments: the clavichord, the lute and the recorder. This early 'do-it-yourself' manual of instruction not only tells us about music-making in that era, it also illumines other aspects of society in the years just before the Reformation. Its author communicates in a popular style, choosing a mixture of media: a written text in the guise of an informal conversation, coupled with woodcut illustrations and visual aids. Enthusiasts of early music and its performance as well as historians of art, society and the German language will welcome Beth Bullard's substantial introduction and annotations, which help explain the text of this important work and its place in intellectual history.

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