TY - BOOK ID - 69631933 TI - Musica getutscht : a treatise on musical instruments (1511) AU - Virdung, Sebastian AU - Bullard, Beth PY - 1993 SN - 0521308305 0521032776 1139085239 0511518323 051182680X PB - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, DB - UniCat KW - 78.60.1 KW - Musical instruments KW - Tablature (Music) KW - Virdung, Sebastian, KW - Musical notation KW - Intabulations KW - Tablature (Musical notation) KW - Instrumental music KW - Instruments, Musical KW - Organology (Music) KW - History and criticism KW - Instrumenten KW - Traktaten KW - Iconografie KW - Klavier KW - Blokfluit KW - Luit KW - Duitsland KW - 15e eeuw KW - 16e eeuw KW - Methodes UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:69631933 AB - Musica getutscht (Basel, 1511) is the earliest printed treatise on musical instruments in the West. Written by a priest and chapel singer named Sebastian Virdung, it provided rudimentary instruction on playing three instruments: the clavichord, the lute and the recorder. This early 'do-it-yourself' manual of instruction not only tells us about music-making in that era, it also illumines other aspects of society in the years just before the Reformation. Its author communicates in a popular style, choosing a mixture of media: a written text in the guise of an informal conversation, coupled with woodcut illustrations and visual aids. Enthusiasts of early music and its performance as well as historians of art, society and the German language will welcome Beth Bullard's substantial introduction and annotations, which help explain the text of this important work and its place in intellectual history. ER -