Musical Instruments: History, Technology, and Performance of Instruments of Western Music

by Murray Campbell (Author), Clive Greated (Author), Arnold Myers (Author)

• New

  Hardcover
  2004

  $612.15

  Presents a comprehensive survey to explain how Western musical instruments work, how they developed historically, how they are manufactured, and how they are used to make music. This book introduces the nature of sounds in music, and tells about the sound production mechanisms of different families of instruments and the distinguishing features.