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Christian Ahrens

    January 1, 1943
    Holz- und Blechblasinstrumente
    "... con cembalo e l'organo..."
    "... in Liebe zerflossenes Gefühl ..."
    Laute und Theorbe
    Chemistry Workbook For Dummies
    Valved brasses
    • 2017

      Chemistry Workbook For Dummies

      • 302 pages
      • 11 hours of reading

      Take the confusion out of chemistry with hundreds of practice problems Chemistry Workbook For Dummies is your ultimate companion for introductory chemistry at the high school or college level.

      Chemistry Workbook For Dummies
    • 2009

      Laute und Theorbe

      Symposium im Rahmen der 31. Tage Alter Musik in Herne 2006

      • 166 pages
      • 6 hours of reading
      Laute und Theorbe
    • 2009
    • 2008

      Valved brasses

      • 135 pages
      • 5 hours of reading

      In the history of brass instruments, few developments can rival the early nineteenth-century invention of the valve for enduring significance. Nevertheless, the acceptance of valved brass instruments proved controversial, as newspapers and other documents repeatedly attest. Christian Ahrens (Ruhr-Universität Bochum) in his important monograph, Eine Erfindung und ihre Folgen: Blechblasinstrumente mit Ventilen (1986), devotes considerable attention to this heated controversy, as he traces the early use of valved brass instruments in the realms of art music, military music, and Volksmusik. Stressing social and aesthetic issues over the more familiar mechanical aspects, the author draws on a rich body of journalistic source material to detail a compelling reception history [Publisher description]

      Valved brasses
    • 2008
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