Well-tempered woodwinds : Friedrich von Huene and the making of early music in a new world /

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Friedrich von Huene (1928- ) is arguably the most important manufacturer of historical woodwinds in the 20th century. Since he began making recorders in 1958, von Huene has exerted a strong influence on the craft of building woodwind instruments and on the study of instrument-making, as he has helpe...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Burgess, Geoffrey (Oboist) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bloomington, IN : Indiana University Press, [2015]
Series:Publications of the Early Music Institute.
Subjects:
Huene, Friedrich von, > 1929-
1900-1999
Woodwind instruments > Construction > History > 20th century.
Musical instruments > Construction > History > 20th century.
Bois (Instruments de musique) > Facture > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Instruments de musique > Facture > Histoire > 20e siècle.
MUSIC > Musical Instruments > Woodwinds.
Musical instruments > Construction
Woodwind instruments > Construction
Biographies
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Preface : why recorders?
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue : a domestic music room in Brookline
  • Childhood in paradise
  • Flight from Eden
  • Training in a new world
  • Friedrich the Great : founding an empire
  • Trading old flutes for new
  • Heydays
  • At the hub of an international network
  • Cause to celebrate
  • The von Huene legacy
  • Epilogue : Amid the mementos of an active life
  • Appendix 1. Von Huene family tree
  • Appendix 2. Friedrich von Huene summary chronology
  • Appendix 3. List of honors
  • Appendix 4. Recordings of J.S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos with recorders, 1941-1993
  • Appendix 5. List of instruments produced by the von Huene workshop
  • Appendix 6. Recorders and traversos heard in recordings by Frans Brüggen
  • Appendix 7. General discography.

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