Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)

David Rowland

ISBN 10: 052164366X / ISBN 13: 9780521643665

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2001

Beschreibung

Hardcover. Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to the music from c. 1700-c.1900. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed-keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as is articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 9780521643665

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Hardcover)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 052164366X
• ISBN-13: 9780521643665
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: new

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Discusses performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

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Charlotte y Peter Fiell son dos autoridades en historia, teoría y crítica del diseño y han escrito más de sesenta libros sobre la materia, muchos de los cuales se han convertido en éxitos de ventas. También han impartido conferencias y cursos como profesores invitados, han comisariado exposiciones y asesorado a fabricantes, museos, salas de subastas y grandes coleccionistas privados de todo el mundo. Los Fiell han escrito numerosos libros para TASCHEN, entre los que se incluyen 1000 Chairs, Diseño del siglo XX, El diseño industrial de la A a la Z, Scandinavian Design y Diseño del siglo XXI.