A survey of the evolution of the design and decoration of musical instruments over a period of 400 years.

As a distinguished scholar of Renaissance music, James Haar has had an abiding influence on how musicology is undertaken, owing in great measure to a substantia

This is the first in-depth study in any language exploring the vast cultural range of instrumental music during the Renaissance.

Written by a distinguished musicologist, this comprehensive history of musical instruments traces their evolution from prehistoric times in a fusion of music, a

With contributions from a range of internationally known early music scholars and performers, Tess Knighton and David Fallows provide a lively new survey of mus