18 Century Music

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“Couple making music” (lady is playing the lute and the gentleman a viola da gamba) by A

Benzaiten, the Goddess of Music and Good Fortune, Muromachi period 15h–16th century Japan

bishop and nun‘The Maastricht Hours’, Liège 14th centuryBL, Stowe 17, fol. 49r

Hercules, stahp!Raoul Lefèvre, Histoires de Troyes, Cognac ca. 1500BnF, Français 252, fol. 99r

lutenistPontifical of Guillaume Durand, Avignon, before 1390Paris, Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, ms

but you don’t really care for music, do you?King David dancing before the Ark of the Covenant&

“La copla” by Manuel Cabral,, 1850-90

Court musicanIvory with traces of polychromeIndia 18th century

Bononcini, Giovanni, 1670-1747. Astianatte ; Calfurnia : manuscript, [ca. 1727].M1505.B724 A85 1727H

Whistle an old tune…“If you think what this has been through – if it is from the 14th century

Louis de Carmontelle (French; 1717–1806)Monsieur Rameau Watercolor, gouache, graphite, and red chalk

“A Family Concert at Chateau Renescure” French School, c. mid 18th century

Trompe l’oeil Still Life, Sebastiano Lazzari (fl. 2nd half of 18th century)

archaicwonder:Roman Marble Statuette of A Muse Holding a Kithara, 2nd Century AD74cm (29.1 in) high

goat musicianpsalter, England 13th centuryBL, Harley 5102, fol. 59r

Part of a new blog post from our sheet music cataloger on songs about Hawai’i. Sheet Music 320Hought

“Signor Gruntinelli playing on a new instrument …” [ca. 1795]HEW 4.8.24Houghton Library,

Albrecht Dürer, Piper and Drummer, 1503/05. Basswood. Germany. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum & Fondati

the lute player and the harpistFroissart’s Chronicles, Bruges ca. 1470-1475.Paris, BnF, França

ab. 1770-1782 Vincenzo Vita - A Musical Party(Bowes Museum)

Portrait of a young woman playing the lute by Reinier de la Haye (fl. 1660–1695)

Allegory of hearing by Anna Rosina de Gasc  (1713-1783) 

J. Helfft, The Music Room of Fanny Hensel, 1849. Brush and watercolor, graphite on paper. Fanny Hens

rosscountyhistoricalsociety:    Reginaphone double comb music box, late 19th century.

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