Diccionario de instrumentos musicales

Music is one of the most valuable and decisive assets of Western culture. Knowing its roots leads us to the origin of an art as deep as it is enigmatic, and to familiarize ourselves with our own past as a civilization. The idea that presides over this work, original and unique by its nature, is to offer the reader the history and evolution of musical instruments from Antiquity to the meridian of the 18th century, instruments that have been and are transcendent for the future of music. Prologued by John Eliot Gardiner, these pages are a true rescue in which many composers and works of the first magnitude, instrument builders and theoreticians who gave the greatest splendor to the so-called art of the Muses, stand as protagonists of an incomparable cultural treasure. This valuable dictionary, which offers a wealth of information, also has detailed appendices that show the relationship between music, painting and literature. An essential reference work for music lovers that, in addition, includes not only the presence of cultured instruments, but also folkloric ones, which have contributed to that invaluable asset of the people that is music.