Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle

Isacoff, Stuart

ISBN 10: 0375403558 / ISBN 13: 9780375403552

Verlag: Knopf, 2001

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VG in VG dj.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 113568

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
• Verlag: Knopf
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0375403558
• ISBN-13: 9780375403552
• Einband: Hardcover
• Zustand: Very Good

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Inhaltsangabe

Explores the eighteenth-century musical breakthrough that led to the creation of the modern piano keyboard, which greatly expanded the creative possibilities of classical composition.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Stuart Isacoff, a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, is a pianist, lecturer, composer, and the creator and editor in chief of the country's largest-circulation classical piano magazine, <i>Piano Today</i>. He has contributed to <i>The New Grove Dictionary of American Music</i> and has written for the <i>New York Times</i>. He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey.