The Project

There are three main strands to the project, which offer parallel investigations into keyboard instruments, music manuscripts and art. Further work will be done on other instrument types, and on music books and artifacts.

I: The Loss and Survival of Early Keyboard Instruments

Introduction - Keyboard typology - Creation - Usage - Collection and storage - Damage and Loss - Museums - Preservation - Reconstruction - Fakery - Measuring losses

II: Lost Music Manuscripts

Introduction - Sources and creation - Usage - Ownership - Damage and Loss - Collecting - Preservation - Measuring losses

III: Lost Paintings of Musicians

Introduction - Documentary sources - Engraved and etched later copies - Collectors and ownership