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17th and 18th Century
De campanis commentarius
by
Angelo Roccha
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections ML1039 .R6 1612
Publication Date: 1612
This work considers the history of bells, including their functions in church and in secular society.
Abhandlung von der Tastenharmonika
by
Franz Konrad Bartl
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections ML1085 .B18 1798
Publication Date: 1798
Treatise on an updated version of the armonica (musical glasses), originally invented by Benjamin Franklin in the second half of the 18th century.
19th Century
The drummer's instructor
by
J.L. Rumrille and H. Holton
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections MT735 .R86 1817
Publication Date: 1817
One of the earliest known American works containing drum lessons.
Massachusetts collection of martial musick
by
Alvan Robinson
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections M1270 .M37 1820
Publication Date: 1820
An early American method book for percussion instruments.
Beyträge zur praktischen Akustik und zur Lehre vom Instrumentbau
by
E.F.F. Chladni
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections ML1085 .C45 1821
Publication Date: 1821
Description of Chladni's newly invented instrument the clavicylinder, which is a variation on the glass armonica.
A treatise on the angelica or musical glasses
by
Daniel Menzies
Call Number: Con Library Special Collections MT670 .M46 1820
Publication Date: 1825
This treatise for the performance of musical glasses is written in the form of a dialogue between the author and a student.
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