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Accompanying compact discs include recordings of some of the instruments listed in the book.

Text in Italian and English.

In search of lost sounds : art and music in the instrument collection of Fernanda Giulini

Accompanying compact disc [no.] 1 has title : Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti : cembalo - fortepiano - pianoforte

Accompanying compact disc [no.] 2 has title : Alla ricerca dei suoni perduti : organo - arpa - salterio - chitarra - mandolino

Preface ; Birth and development of the piano ; The invention of the keyboard ; Introduction to the early keyboard instruments ; Schedules of the early keyboard instruments from no. 1 to no. 32 / John Henry van der Meer

An introduction to the catalogue of the post-1850 pianos in the Giulini collection ; Schedules of the modern pianos from no. 33 to no. 38 / Grant O'Brien

Schedules of the historical organs from no. 39 to no. 41 / Oscar Mischiati

Birth and development of the harp ; Introduction to historical harps / John Henry van der Meer

Introduction to the schedules of the harps from no. 42 to no. 52 ; Preface ; A survey of Western European harps ; Schedules of the harps from no. 42 to no. 52 / Dagmar Droysen-Reber

Birth and development of the psaltery ; Introduction ; Schedules of the psalteries from no. 53 to no. 57 / John Henry van der Meer

Birth and development of the plucked instruments ; Introduction mandolins and guitar ; Schedules of the mandolins and of the guitar from no. 58 to no. 60 / Tiziano Rizzi

The imagery of music / Carlo Bertelli

Fortepianos as objects of furniture / Daniela di Castro

A note on heraldry / Andreina Bazzi

The foundation of musical organology / Renato Meucci

Johann Ferdinand Schönfeld : in conversations about Streicher and Schanz / Michael Latcham

Reflections on the history of early keyboards / Laurence Libin

Music and architecture / Pier Fausto Bagatti Valsecchi

Brevissima storia degli strumenti musicali / Guglielmo Mozzoni

Moulding castings from no. 1 to no. 9 / Andrea gatti e valentina Ricetti

Wood terminology ; Glossary of keyboard instruments technical terms / Augusto Bonza

Glossary of special terms used for the harp / Dagmar Droysen-Reber

Glossary for plucked instruments / Tiziano Rizzi

Curricula of the authors

Comparison between Italian and Helmholtz notations

Bibliographies

Index of names

General index.

Contents of accompanying CDs: CD 1. Cembalo Giovanni Natale Boccalari, 1679 ; Cembalo "Ottoboni", seconda metà del secolo XVII ; Cembalo Onofrio Guarracino, seconda metà del secolo XVII ; Cembalo André Fernández Santos, 1728 ; Arpicordo Baptista Carenonus Salodiensis, 1700 ; Cembalo trasformato in fortepiano, fine secolo XVIII ; Cembalo "Combinatorio" Johann Ludwig Hellen, 1763 ; Fortepiano Frère et Sœur Stein, tra il 1794 e il 1802 ; Fortepiano Anton Walter, 1796 ; Fortepiano Johann Schantz, 1810-1820 ; Fortepiano Conrad Graf, ca. 1834 ; Fortepiano Ignace Pleyel, 1839 ; Fortepiano Pierre-Orphée Erard, 1853 ; Pianoforte Julius Blüthner, 1902 ; Pianoforte Steinway & Sons, 1990

CD 2. Organo Bartolomeo Ravani, secolo XVII ; Organo Dominicus Antonius Rossi, secolo XVIII ; Arpa Godefroid Holtzman, 1775 ; Arpa Jean-Henri Naderman, 1790 ; Arpa J.B. Hurtz, 1785 ; Arpa Pierre-Joseph Zimmermann, 1785 ; Arpa Jacques-George Cousineau, 1815 ; Arpa Henri Naderman, 1820 ; Arpa Sébastien Erard, 1821 ; Arpa Sébastien Erard, 1825 ; Salterio Italiano, secolo XVIII ; Salterio Italiano, ca. 1800 ; Salterio Austro-Ungarico, prima metà secolo XIX ; Chitarra fernando del Perugia, 1894 ; Mandolino Carlo Albertini, prima metà del secolo XX ; Chitarra Fernando del Perugia, 1894 ; Mandolino Napoletano, XX secolo ; Chitarra Fernando del Perugia, 1894.

Villa Medici Giulini (Briosco, Italy) > Catalogs.

Keyboard instruments > Catalogs and collections > Italy > Milan.

Keyboard instruments > Catalogs and collections > Italy > Briosco.

Plucked instruments > Catalogs and collections > Italy > Milan.

Plucked instruments > Catalogs and collections > Italy > Briosco.

Keyboard instruments > History.

Plucked instruments > History.