Marvels of sound and beauty: Italian baroque musical instruments

Contents

Presentation / Christina Acidini -- Presentation / Edoardo Speranza -- Presentation / Paolo Biordi -- Essays -- Resounding beauties : the beauty of sound / Franca Falletti -- Mucial instrument collections in Renaissance and baroque Italy / Renato Meucci -- Italian musical instruments in Europe : the dynamics of an exodus / Gabriele Rossi-Rognoni -- Musical instruments between decoration, form and function : considerations on beauty / Claudio Paolini -- Zoomorphic and theatrical musical instruments in the late Italian renaissance and baroque eras / Herbert Heyde -- Musical instruments made of unusual and precious materials, jewels in their own right / Friedemann Hellwig -- Paintings and sculptures on European musical instruments / Florence Gétreau -- Catalogue -- Painted, sculpted and carved instruments -- Music in a Roman Palazzo : the Pallavicini and Rospigliosi instruments / Daneiala Di Castro -- Zoomorphic and theatrical instruments -- Marble instruments and semi-precious stones -- Marble musical instruments / Patrizia Radicchi -- Inlaid and ivory instruments -- The ivory instruments by Giovanni Maria Anciuti / Renato Meucci -- References.