Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Naxos : Made available through hoopla, 2014
EDITION
Unabridged
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource (1 audio file (8hr., 01 min.)) : digital
ISBN/ISSN
9781843797364 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) MWT11188458, 1843797364 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) 11188458
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Various performers
Instruments of the orchestra, yes, but not just instruments in the orchestra. This is a set of portraits in depth, featuring individual instruments in many contexts (orchestral, chamber, folk, solo, operatic, cinematic, even jazz and avant-garde music) and in pieces from the Middle Ages to the present. Joining regular members are such exotic visitors as the eerie ondes martenot, the wind machine, banjos, bagpipes, coconuts, typewriters, six-shooters, taxi horns, and migrating swans ? and the hundreds of examples range from illustrative snippets to entire movements
Mode of access: World Wide Web