Sources: Origins and Development of Musical Instruments

Abstract

1. Origins -- Musical sound -- Voices -- Lithophones -- Percussion bars -- Bells and gongs -- Rattles -- Interlude A: Instruments of protection. 2. Drums -- Trouble with tension -- Drums -- Tubular drums -- Interlude B: Musicians. 3. Flutes and recorders -- Monotone -- Whistling in the wind -- Vessel flutes -- Penny whistles and recorders -- Transverse flutes -- Harmonic flutes -- Interlude C: The Medieval Renaissance and the First Industrial Revolution. 4. Reeds -- Straws in the wind -- Oboes and bassoons -- Clarinets and other single reeds -- Free reeds -- Interlude D: The ideal accompaniment. 5. "Brass" instruments: trumpets and horns -- Interlude E: The Second Industrial Revolution. 6. String instruments -- From bows to lyres, harps, and lutes -- Lyres -- Harps -- Zithers -- Stringed keyboards -- Plucked lutes -- Bowed lutes aka fiddles -- Interlude F: Messengers. 7. Pipe organs -- Interlude G: Symbiosis. 8. Electrophones -- Interlude H: Newly created, recognized, or discovered instruments. Afterword: Archaeology and other -ologies -- Classification of instruments -- Scales and music -- The sounds of silence.