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Article: From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century.(Book review)
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- Renaissance Quarterly
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- June 22, 2006
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Jonathan Wainwright and Peter Holman, eds. From Renaissance to Baroque: Change in Instruments and Instrumental Music in the Seventeenth Century.
Aldershot, UK: Ashgate Publishing, 2004. xx + 322 pp. index. illus. tbls. bibl. $99.95. ISBN: 0-7546-0403-9.
Presented here are papers, along with reports from workshops, given at the 1999 conference of the National Early Music Association in York, England. Papers on winds concern metamorphosis of hautbois (oboe) from shawm, by Bruce Haynes and by Marc Ecochard; development of the fagott (bassoon), by Graham Lyndon-Jones; cultural meanings of recorders in iconography, by Anthony Rowland-Jones; uses of ...