Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art Music How humans interact with music

How humans interact with music

Author Kristrún Guðmundsdóttir

ISBN 9789935500472

ISBN 9979769548

Jökull Gíslaon

Musical Instruments and Their Symbolism in Western Art Music How humans interact with musicThis book first appeared in 1967. In the years since then it has spawned the new academic sub discipline of musical iconology which belongs equally to the histories of art and of music. Emmanuel Winternitz who was for thirty one years Curator of Musical Collections at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is one of the world's leading authorities on the history of musical instruments. In this collection of closely related articles he examines what these