A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments - Stewart Pollens

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

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Buch | Hardcover
592 Seiten
2022
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-1-108-42199-7 (ISBN)
144,65 inkl. MwSt
A wide-ranging history of the piano, clavichord, and harpsichord, from their origins in the fourteenth century to the present. It will interest scholars, keyboard instrument players, makers and technicians, as well as those who simply enjoy listening to over five centuries of keyboard music.
This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.

Trained as a harpsichord, organ, and violin maker, Stewart Pollens served as the conservator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1976 to 2006. He has published widely on the history of musical instruments and is the recipient of the American Musical Instrument Society's 1997 Bessaraboff Prize for The Early Pianoforte (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

1. Origins of keyboard instruments; 2. Principles of design and construction; 3. The Henri Arnaut manuscript; 4. The renaissance; 5. The Baroque period; 6. Invention of the piano; 7. The classical period; 8. The romantic era; 9. Stagnation and revival; Bibliography; Index.

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Zusatzinfo Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort Cambridge
Sprache englisch
Maße 183 x 260 mm
Gewicht 1400 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Instrumentenkunde
ISBN-10 1-108-42199-7 / 1108421997
ISBN-13 978-1-108-42199-7 / 9781108421997
Zustand Neuware
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