Anthony Cuthbert Baines (1912–1997) [1] was an English organologist who produced a wide variety of works on the history of musical instruments, and was a founding member of the Galpin Society.[2]
He attended Westminster School and then read for a degree in chemistry at Christ Church, Oxford. He subsequently won a scholarship to the Royal College of Music as a bassoon player, and went on to perform with the London Philharmonic Orchestra.[3]
Selected publications
[edit]- Woodwind Instruments and their History (London: Faber & Faber, 1957; reprinted 1962, 1967, 1991)
- Bagpipes (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1960; reprinted 1979, 1995), ISBN 0-902793-10-1
- Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican, 1961; revised edition, London: Faber, 1966), ISBN 0-14-020347-8
- European and American Musical Instruments (London: B. T. Batsford, 1966; London: Chancellor, 1983)
- Brass Instruments: Their History and Development (London: Faber, 1976; reprinted New York: Dover, 1993)
- The Bate Collection of Historical Wind Instruments (Oxford University, Faculty of Music, 1976), ISBN 0907486282
- The Oxford Companion to Musical Instruments (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1992), ISBN 0193113341
Bibliography
[edit]- Jeremy Montagu: "Anthony Baines, 1912–97", in Early Music vol. 25 (1997), May, pp. 345–346.
- Joan Rimmer: "Anthony Cuthbert Baines, 1912–1997: A Biographical Memoir", in: The Galpin Society Journal vol. 52 (1999), April, pp. 11–26.
- https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/documents/373/115p053.pdf
References
[edit]- ^ Obituary in Early Music (1997) vol. 25 no. 2, pp. 345–346, doi:10.1093/earlyj/XXV.2.345.
- ^ Experimental Musical Instruments, volumes 12–13, 1996.
- ^ A. C. Baines (ed.): Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1961), cover text.
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