WORLD OF MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS. de Montagu, Jeremy - (1980)

Woodstock, NY:: Overlook Press,, (1980). Hardcover -. Fine in near fine dust jacket (price-clipped). 2nd printing. A comprehensive and thoroughly researched account not just of the instruments of that the early Middle Ages, through the Crusades, the Hundred Years War and the Renaissance, but also of changes in the theory of music, its notation and of the musicians themselves from the earliest wandering musicians to the court era and to the first formal orchestras. Contains over 100 black and white illustrations and 15 in full color. Bibliography, index. 136 pp. Illustrated endpapers. Large square format.