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By Annette Otterstedt. Translated by Hans Reiners. Kassel: Barenreiter, 2002. (Revised and enlarged edition of Die Gambe, Kulturgeschichte und praktischer Ratgeber [Kassel: Barenreiter, 1994]). [262 p. ISBN 3-7618-1151-9. 34.90. [euro] Music examples, illustrations, color plates, diagrams, bibliography, index.
Professional musicians who are also professional musicologists are a fairly rare breed and likely to remain so. Quite apart from the philosophical reasons for the separation, which go back far indeed--the divide between theory and practice is inscribed in Western culture with a depth that we ignore at our peril--there are also good practical reasons. ...