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    Music General: History Notes Book 6
    Music General: History Notes Book 6
    Music General: History Notes Book 6
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    Music General: History Notes Book 6

    By Suzi Love

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    Musical instruments and music around the world through the 17th, 18th, and 19th Centuries. Pianos, pianofortes, harps, viols, violins, and many more. Enjoy lots of historical and edited images from fashion plates, museums, and sellers.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSuzi Love
    Release dateAug 7, 2018
    ISBN9780463652220
    Music General: History Notes Book 6
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    Suzi Love

    I now live in a sunny part of Australia after spending many years in developing countries in the South Pacific. My greatest loves are traveling, anywhere and everywhere, meeting crazy characters, and visiting the Australian outback.I adore history, especially the many-layered society of the late Regency to early Victorian eras. In and around London, my titled heroes and heroines may live a privileged and gay life but I also love digging deeper into the grittier and seamier levels of British life and write about the heroes and heroines who challenge traditional manners, morals, and occupations, either through necessity or desire.Tag Line- Making history fun, one year at a time

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      Music General - Suzi Love

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      Music and Instruments

      Music and Musical Instruments Through History

      1750-1850 ca. Collage of Musical Instruments By Suzi Love.

      1750-1850 ca. Collage of Musical Instruments By Suzi Love.

      Musical instruction and encouragement could be found everywhere and both young ladies and gentlemen were encouraged to have musical appreciation. And of course, playing music was on the list of social requirements for all young ladies desirous of becoming a wife and homemaker. Musical Instruments were so important in most of the more affluent households in history that large industries grew all around the world to manufacture instruments, musical accessories, and to print sheet music.

      London became Europe’s leading centre for the manufacture of scientific instruments and this led to the manufacture of more musical instruments as well as factories developed and rail transport helped the faster distribution of goods to regional areas.

      Musical instruments are divided into three kinds : wind  instruments, stringed instruments and instruments of  percussion. Of the historic stringed instruments the most known are the lyre, psalterium, trigonium. The principal wind instruments were the tibia, fistula,  tuba,  cornu, and lituus and those of percussion the tympanum , cymbalum etc.

      The pipe, the most simple and probably the first of musical instruments, is ascribed to a variety of inventors such as Apollo, Pan, Orpheus, Linus and many other revered cultivators and patrons of music. Italy and Germany shared the honor of fostering  the principles of harmony and melody. The earliest Grecian poets sung their own compositions assisted by a lyre, at first furnished with three and then four strings but that number quickly grew to sixteen sounds which formed the Greek 

      Disdiapasion, or  double octave music continued in Greece till long after that country was subdued by the Romans and saw little improvement till the fourth century when Emperor Constantine the Great embraced the Christian religion and introduced vocal devotion into the service of the church. From: 1819  A General History of Music  From the Earliest Times to the Present by Thomas Busby.

      Eliza Hancock, later the Comtesse de Feuillide, Jane Austen's spirited first cousin, was living in Paris in 1780 when she described the harp as ‘at present the fashionable instrument.’ The taste for these large but delicate instruments had certainly reached English circles some fifty years later, when in 1829, Thomas Legh, master of Lyme Park, purchased this beautiful Grecian harp. nationaltrustcollections.org.uk

      Eliza Hancock, later the Comtesse de Feuillide, Jane Austen's spirited first cousin, was living in Paris in 1780 when she described the harp as ‘at present the fashionable instrument.’ The taste for these large but delicate instruments had certainly reached English circles some fifty years later, when in 1829, Thomas Legh, master of Lyme Park, purchased this beautiful Grecian harp. nationaltrustcollections.org.uk

      Early 1800s Canterbury, or wooden stand, for holding sheet music. via Reindeer Antiques~ reindeerantiques.co.uk

      Early 1800s Canterbury, or wooden stand, for holding sheet music. via Reindeer Antiques.

      1810 Painted and Gilt Decorated Music Stand. via 1st Dibs Auctions 1stdibs.com

      1810 Painted and Gilt Decorated Music Stand. via 1st Dibs Auctions

      This book covers general historical musical instruments. For fuller descriptions on pianos, pianofortes, harpsichords, and organs, take a look at History Notes Book 7 Music Pianos.

      For fuller descriptions on viols, violins, and similar stringed instruments,

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