Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle

Iascoff, Stuart

ISBN 10: 0375403558 / ISBN 13: 9780375403552

Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001

Beschreibung

Brown paper-covered boards with black backstrip and silver lettering. Hint of bump to head of spine and tips of upper corners. Text is clean and white, no marks. Unclipped DJ shows light rubbing to front edges. "A fascinating and hugely original book that explains how a vexing technical puzzle was solved, making possible some of the most exquisite music ever written." (from the jacket).

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers K92611

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
• Verlag: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Erscheinungsjahr: 2001
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0375403558
• ISBN-13: 9780375403552
• Einband: Hardcover
• Auflage: Stated First Edition
• Zustand: Very Good
• Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very Good
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Music

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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.