Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810850323
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
Playing the Harpsichord Expressively
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810850323
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810850323
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 146
Book Description
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.
A History of the Harpsichord
Author: Edward L. Kottick
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253341662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 9780253341662
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 606
Book Description
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
The Harpsichord Diaries
Author: Elaine Funaro
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578474335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780578474335
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
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.
Historical Harpsichord Technique
Author: Yonit Lea Kosovske
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001455
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253001455
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 238
Book Description
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.
The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107156076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107156076
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 407
Book Description
Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Off the Record
Author: Neal Peres Da Costa
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195386914
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Publisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195386914
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
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.
Baroque Music
Author: Robert Donington
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393300529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The fruit of a lifetime's research into baroque performing practice.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393300529
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
The fruit of a lifetime's research into baroque performing practice.
The Art-music Readers
Author: Frederic Herbert Ripley
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art appreciation
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Sounding Human
Author: Deirdre Loughridge
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226830101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a “sound wave instrument” by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been—or can be—used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226830101
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 251
Book Description
An expansive analysis of the relationship between human and machine in music. From the mid-eighteenth century on, there was a logic at work in musical discourse and practice: human or machine. That discourse defined a boundary of absolute difference between human and machine, with a recurrent practice of parsing “human” musicality from its “merely mechanical” simulations. In Sounding Human, Deirdre Loughridge tests and traverses these boundaries, unmaking the “human or machine” logic and seeking out others, better characterized by conjunctions such as and or with. Sounding Human enters the debate on posthumanism and human-machine relationships in music, exploring how categories of human and machine have been continually renegotiated over the centuries. Loughridge expertly traces this debate from the 1737 invention of what became the first musical android to the creation of a “sound wave instrument” by a British electronic music composer in the 1960s, and the chopped and pitched vocals produced by sampling singers’ voices in modern pop music. From music-generating computer programs to older musical instruments and music notation, Sounding Human shows how machines have always actively shaped the act of music composition. In doing so, Loughridge reveals how musical artifacts have been—or can be—used to help explain and contest what it is to be human.
The Clavichord
Author: Bernard Brauchli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630672
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This is a richly illustrated history of the clavichord, the forerunner of the modern piano.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521630672
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 410
Book Description
This is a richly illustrated history of the clavichord, the forerunner of the modern piano.