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Geometry, proportion, and the art of lutherie : a study of the use and aesthetic significance of geometry and numerical proportion in the design of European bowed and plucked string instruments in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries

Title
Geometry, proportion, and the art of lutherie : a study of the use and aesthetic significance of geometry and numerical proportion in the design of European bowed and plucked string instruments in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / Kevin Coates.
Author
Coates, Kevin.
Publication
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.

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Description
viii, 178 p. : ill., plans; 32 cm.
Donor/Sponsor
Gift of William S. Paley
Subject
  • Stringed instruments > Construction
  • Geometry
  • Ratio and proportion
Note
  • Includes index.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. [175]-176.
Call Number
JMG 89-1148
ISBN
0198161395
LCCN
83023611 /MN
OCLC
  • 10277402
  • NYPG89-B78545
Author
Coates, Kevin.
Title
Geometry, proportion, and the art of lutherie : a study of the use and aesthetic significance of geometry and numerical proportion in the design of European bowed and plucked string instruments in the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries / Kevin Coates.
Imprint
Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1985.
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. [175]-176.
Research Call Number
JMG 89-1148
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