Anthony Baines

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

• 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

• 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

1. Obituary in Early Music (1997) vol. 25 no. 2, pp. 345–346, doi:10.1093/earlyj/XXV.2.345.
2. Experimental Musical Instruments, volumes 12–13, 1996.
3. A. C. Baines (ed.): Musical Instruments Through the Ages (Harmondsworth: Pelican Books, 1961), cover text.