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Part one: Idiophones. Concussion idiophones: Clappers (castanets, cymbals) -- Percussion idiophones: Stamped idiophones ; Percussion beams ; Percussion disks ; Percussion sticks (the triangle, xylophones, crystallophones, lithophones, metallophones) ; Percussion tubes (stamping tubes, slit drums, tubular chimes and bells) ; Percussion vessels (percussion gourds and pots, gongs, the echeion, the steel drum, bells) -- Shaken idiophones (rattles): Vessel rattles (pellet bells, gourd rattles, basketry rattles, hollow ring rattles) ; Suspension rattles (stick rattles, the sistrum, strung rattles) ; Frame, pendant, and sliding rattles -- Scraped idiophones: Scrapers ; Cog rattles -- Split idiophones -- Plucked idiophones: The Jew's harp ; The sansa ; The music box -- Friction idiophones: Friction sticks ; Friction-bar "pianos" and their precursors ; Friction vessels (musical glasses) -- |
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Part two: Membranophones. Classification and acoustics: The drum as instrument of magic and thunder -- "Predrum" mebranophones: Ground drums ; pot drums -- Tubular drums: The tubular drum in history (antiquity, postclassical Europe) ; Frame drums (frame drums in antiquity, frame drums in postclassical Europe, frame drums in Asia and Africa, frame drums in the Americas) ; Shallow drums ; Cylinder drums ; Hourglass drums ; Conical drums ; Goblet drums ; Barrel drums ; Rattle drums ; Water drums ; Drum sets ; "Talking drums" ; Drum chimes -- Kettledrums: Kettledrums in Asia ; Kettledrums in Africa ; Kettledrums in Europe -- Friction drums -- Mirlitons -- |
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Part three: Chordophones. Zithers: Ground zithers ; Musical bows (acolian bows, the pluriarc) ; Stick zithers (the vinā, the bladder and string) ; Raft zithers ; Trough zithers ; Frame zithers ; Tube zithers ; Board zithers ; Long zithers (individually bridged long zithers, fretted long zithers) ; Box zithers (the monochord, the string drum, the trumpet marine, the psaltery, acolian harps, fretted zithers, the bell harp) -- Keyboard chordophones: The keyboard (experimental keyboards, transposing keyboards) ; The chekker ; The dulce melos ; The clavichord (pedal, two-manual, and organized clavichords, the cimbal d'amour) ; The harpsichord (the clavicytherium, gut-strong harpsichords and spinets, enharmonic harpsichords) ; The spinet (the virginal) ; The claviorganum (the piano-organ) ; Bowed keyboard instruments ; The pinaforte (the piano to 1800, the piano since 1800, harpsichord pianos, tangent pianos, sustaining pianos, pedalboard pianos, enharmonic pianos, player pianos) -- Lyres: Lyres in antiquity (Mesopotamia, Syria, Palestine, and Phoencia, Egypt, the Aegean, Greece, Rome, Europe) ; Medieval lyres (tunings and playing techniques) ; Post-medieval lyres (the crwth, northeastern European lyres, lyres in non-European cultures) -- Harps: Ground bows ; Harps (harps in antiquity, harps in postclassical Europe ; Harps in Asia ; Harps in Africa) ; The harp zither ; The harp lute -- Lutes: The long-necked lute to the year 1000 ; The short-necked lute to the year 1000 ; The classical European lute ; Archlutes (the theorbo, the theorbo lute, the chitarrone, the angelica, archlutes in eastern Europe) ; Regional lutes (lutes outside Europe) ; The mandora ; The mandolin ; The cittern (archcitterns) ; The bandora family (the bandora, the orpharion, the penorcon, the polyphant) ; The guitar (the gittern, the vihuela, the Spanish guitar, bass guitars, hybrid guitars and other derivative forms, the bandurria) ; The organistrum (hurdy-gurdy) -- Bowed chordophones: The bow ; The fiddle (European folk and regional fiddles, fiddles in non-western cultures) ; The rebec (the kit, folk rebecs, the polnishe Geige) ; The lira de braccio (the lira de gamba) ; The viola de gamba ; The violone ; The baryton ; The viola and violino d'amore ; The violin family (the violin, the viola, the tenor violin, the violoncello, the double bass) -- |
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Part four: Aerophones. Free aerophones: Bullroarers ; Buzzers -- Flutes: Tubular flutes: acoustics (single flutes, multiple flutes) ; Vessel flutes (European vessel flutes, vessel flutes outside Europe) ; The organ (the organ in antiquity, the organ in medieval times, the organ in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the organ in the sixteenth century, the organ in the seventeenth century, the organ in the eighteenth century, the organ in the nineteenth century, enharmonic organs, mechanical organs) ; Reedpipes: Double and triple pipes (double pipes in antiquity, postclassical double pipes, triple pipes in Europe, North African double and triple pipes, Asian double pipes, double pipes in the Americas) ; Hornpipes ; The bladder pipe (the crumhorn) ; The bagpipes (the musette, regional folk bagpipes) ; Shawms (the oboe, reedcap shawms, European folk shawms, non-western shawms) ; The rackett (the sordone) ; Bassanelli ; Bassoons (the curtal, the bassoon, the contrabassoon, high-pitched bassoons, single-reed bassoons) ; The sarrusophone ; Reedpipes with single reeds (clarinets, the saxophone, folk and ethnic single-reed pipes) ; Free-reed aerophones (free-reed aerophones in Asia, western free-reed aerophones) -- Lip-vibrated aerophones: Horns (horns in prehistory, horns in antiquity, horns in postclassical Europe, horns in Asia, horns in the Americas) ; Fingerhole horns (the fingerhole horn in history, the cornett, the serpent) ; Trumpet (trumpets in antiquity, trumpets in postclassical Europe, European folk trumpets, trumpets in Asia, trumpets of Africa, trumpets of the Americas, trumpets of the Pacific, shell trumpets). |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliography (pages 833-842) and indexes. |
| LCCN | 72009135 |
| ISBN | 0060127767 |
