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Author Polk, Keith.
Title German instrumental music of the late Middle Ages: players, patrons, and performance practice.
Work Type Book
Language English
Publication Date 1992
Citation Polk, Keith. German instrumental music of the late Middle Ages: players, patrons, and performance practice. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1992. [See esp. discussion of guilds as "an irrelevant nuisance for a broad segment of the leading professional instrumentalists" (p. 123), and discussion of master/apprentice training (125). Includes reference to 1492 contract in Ghent to teach art of playing "shawms, flutes and other instruments" (125); a 1474 document of an amateur harpist which records that he had learned "20 dances," and a citation of a German lute player who had studied with Pietrobono in 1455 and learned "two things of advantage" (p. 125). ]
Identity instrumentalist|amateur|professional|apprentice|journeyman|master|
Other Identity instruction in religious houses and confraternities
Milieu city|village|
Education income|lessons|apprenticeship|repertory|
Materials instruments|
Flourished 1450s|1460s|1470s|1480s|1490s|
Region germany|
Illustrations financial|contracts|letters|
Record Number 209



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