2010. Hardcover. A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments. Series: Musical Performance and Reception. Num Pages: 366 pages, 135 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 32 tables. BIC Classification: AVS. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 282 x 228 x 28. Weight in Grams: 1524. Series: Musical Performance and Reception. 350 pages, 135 b/w illus. 16 colour illus. 32 tables. A highly illustrated biography and study of Stradivari, the greatest violin maker, including colour photographs of his most famous instruments. Cateogry: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). BIC Classification: AVS. Dimension: 282 x 228 x 28. Weight: 1508. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Musical Performance and Reception: Stradivari
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication Date: 2010
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0521873045
ISBN 13: 9780521873048
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: New

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For over 200 years, Antonio Stradivari has been universally regarded as the greatest violin maker who ever lived, yet it is not widely known that he made virtually every kind of bowed- and plucked-string instrument popular in the Baroque period, including lutes, viols, mandolins, guitars, and harps. Stradivari provides a fascinating biography of this legendary maker, based on newly discovered material in church and civic archives, alongside technical descriptions and analyses of many of the maker's workshop materials preserved in the Museo Stradivariano in Cremona, particularly as they relate to extant and lost instruments, baroque stringing and instrument adjustment, and early performance practice. There are separate chapters for each type of instrument, allowing the reader to easily locate information. The book contains tables of measurements of Stradivari's forms and patterns, over 100 black and white photographs and drawings, and colour photographs of 16 of Stradivari's most important violins, violas, and cellos.

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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.

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