1.Prehistory and Antiquity 2. The Middle Ages (to 1300) 3. Ars Nova and Early Renaissance (1300-1500) 4. High Renaissance (Sixteenth Century) 5. The Baroque Era (1600-1750) 6. The Classical Period (1750-1810) 7. From Romanticism to Avant-Garde (1810-1960). Appendix: Rudiments of the Acoustics of Musical Instruments.
Biography
Karl Geiringer (1899-1989) was an Austrian-American musicologist, prolific author and Professor of Music at the University of California, Santa Barbara.
Original review of Instruments in the History of Western Music:
‘…a work of reference without parallel in the English language…Indeed, one is left with a doubt which to admire more, the extent of Dr. Geiringer’s learning or the sense of proportion which controls it.’ Times Literary Supplement.
