Author : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 10,41 MB
Release : 2004
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780810850323
This book gives a practical method for playing the harpsichord in a way that was lost when the instrument was marginalized by the piano in the 19th century. Since a thorough knowledge of historical performance practice is such an important aspect of playing this repertoire, excerpts from relevant primary sources are given at the end of many of the lessons.
Author : Edward L. Kottick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 606 pages
File Size : 19,46 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780253341662
A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over seven centuries.Based on painstaking research, the book considers the place of the instrument in society and vividly describes the market forces that brought about changes in its form, decoration, and cultural importance. An accompanying CDincludes performances on several of the historical instruments described and illustrated in the volume, including a 1580 spinett virginal by Martin van der Biest and instruments built by Ruckers and Pleyel. The volume devotes attention to American harpsichord design as well as to present and future uses of the instrument.Also of interestThe History of the PianoforteA Documentary in SoundEva Badura-Skoda0-253-33582-5 HB £37.95
Author : Elaine Funaro
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 42,27 MB
Release : 2019-05
Category :
ISBN : 9780578474335
Elena discovers a magical book in her grandmother's attic, The Harpsichord Diaries. Transported through five centuries, she meets eccentric talking harpsichords that bring music and history to life. Internationally acclaimed harpsichordist Elaine Funaro teamed up with her twins, professional theater director Eric Love and award-winning animator Andrea Love to create this unique musical journey.
Author : Yonit Lea Kosovske
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 15,58 MB
Release : 2011-07-11
Category : Music
ISBN : 0253001455
Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in the modern player. Reviewing the work of the pedagogues and performers of the late Renaissance through the late Baroque, she gives special emphasis to la douceur du toucher or a gentle touch. Other topics addressed include posture, early pedagogy, exercises, articulation, and fingering patterns. Illustrated with musical examples as well as photos of the author at the keyboard, Historical Harpsichord Technique can be used for individual or group lessons and for amateurs and professionals.
Author : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 18,9 MB
Release : 2019-01-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 1107156076
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Author : Neal Peres Da Costa
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 396 pages
File Size : 45,76 MB
Release : 2012-05-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 0195386914
In Off the Record, author and pianist Neal Peres Da Costa explores Romantic-era performance practices through a range of early sound recordings--acoustic, piano roll and electric--that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century.
Author : Elizabeth Rusch
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 45,24 MB
Release : 2017-04-18
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1481444859
Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument: the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes. Some of his keyboards can play piano, light and soft; others make forte notes ring out, strong and loud, but Cristofori longs to create an instrument that can be played both soft and loud. His talent has caught the attention of Prince Ferdinando de Medici, who wants his court to become the musical center of Italy. The prince brings Cristofori to the noisy city of Florence, where the goldsmiths’ tiny hammers whisper tink, tink and the blacksmiths’ big sledgehammers shout BANG, BANG! Could hammers be the key to the new instrument? At last Cristofori gets his creation just right. It is called the pianoforte, for what it can do. All around the world, people young and old can play the most intricate music of their lives, thanks to Bartolomeo Cristofori’s marvelous creation: the piano.
Author : Robert Donington
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 13,48 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393300529
The fruit of a lifetime's research into baroque performing practice.
Author : Frederic Herbert Ripley
Publisher :
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 49,36 MB
Release : 1916
Category : Art appreciation
ISBN :
Author : Professor David Tunley
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 20,32 MB
Release : 2013-01-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 140949361X
François Couperin's contribution to the literature of baroque keyboard music has long been recognized. François Couperin and 'The Perfection of Music' updates and expands upon David Tunley's valuable 1982 BBC Music Guide to the composer, and examines the whole of Couperin’s output including the organ masses, motets and chamber music, in addition to the well-known works for harpsichord. Taking as its focal point Couperin's concept of the perfection of music through the union of the French and Italian styles, this book takes a more analytical approach to Couperin's work. Early chapters outline the main contrasting features of the two schools in the seventeenth- and early eighteenth-centuries, and it becomes clear that Couperin's expressive power owed much to his fusion of the polarities of the French classical tradition with that of the Italian baroque. The book features a number of appendices, including the prefaces to Couperin's work both in the original French and in English translation, and a glossary of dances of the French baroque.
