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New, September 2020
Interview with Jeremy Montagu in the NEMA Newsletter, March 2018
New, August 2020
The Artificial in Musical Instruments
New, July 2020
Timpani and Side Drums in England in the 16th and 17th Centuries
New, June 2019
Do Instruments Harm Their Players?
The Dangers of Mediæval Iconography
Can You Reproduce an Instrument?
Why Differing Pitch Standards?
New, May 2019
New, December 2018
New, October 2018
New, August 2018
A tribute to Jeremy Montagu on his 90th birthday, from the CIMCIM Bulletin, August 2018
New, June 2018
The Oldest Organ in Christendom, updated 2007
New, April 2018
New, October 2017
Musical Instruments of the Baroque.
The Orchestra in History, a lecture series given in the 1980s
The Pipe and Tabor is Alive and Well in the Basque Country.
Tutankhamon’s Trumpets and the Ḥatsots’rot.
New, July 2017
The Magpie in Ethnomusicology, The John Blacking Memorial Lecture, 1997
The Javanese Gamelan Kyai Madu Laras
Supplement to Reed Instruments - the Montagu Collection: An Annotated Catalogue (Lanham, Scarecrow Press, 2001). Download. (1 mb)
A CD-ROM with illustrations of all the instruments in the book is available only from the Author. These are arranged in two complete series, one typologically so that you can see all the shawms, for example, in one series; the other page by page so that you can see what the instruments look like as you read the book.
A Clavichord By Hieronymus Hass in the Bate, and how we treat our instruments
Collecting Musical Instruments
Corrections for Diagram Group 'Musical Instruments of the World'
Did shawms exist in antiquity?
The Divorce of Organology from Ethnomusicology
Don't go overboard about ivory
Early Music – Earlier and Later
Historical Instruments and their Role
How Far Do We Dare to Revise Hornbostel and Sachs?
How Music and Instruments Began
Instrumental Influences in the Mediterranean
The Mary Rose- What’s here, what isn’t here, and why were they there?
Metal-covered threads before 1600 (by Gwen Montagu)
Muslim Influence and the Global Mediterranean
The Oldest Organ in Christendom
On the Skill of Viennese Brass Instrument Makers
Popular Oboes of the Mediterranean
Pottery Skeuomorphs of Conches in Antiquity
The Silver Trumpets, Ḥatsots’rōt
Some manuscripts in the British Library with Instruments
Survival of Instrumental Types around the Baltic
What can we expect museums to allow?
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