Author: Franz Josef Hirt
Publisher: Boston : Boston Book and Art Shop, 1968 [c1955]
ISBN:
Category : Keyboard instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 508

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Author: Franz Josef Hirt
Publisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN: 9780306511356
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

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Author: Edwin M. Ripin
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 9780393305159
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340

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The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much-acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Each book is a comprehensive guide to all facets of an instrument: its history, construction, repertory, playing techniques, and makers, written by leading authorities.

Author: Richard Burnett
Publisher: Third Millennium Information Ltd
ISBN: 9781903942352
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 248

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This beautifully written history of the piano is at once remarkably informative and uniquely engaging. Performer and historian Richard Burnett traces the development of the piano from its origins to the present day, drawing on keyboard instruments from his internationally known collection, at the Finchcocks Museum in Kent, England.Sixty-one of these instruments, including organs, harpsichords, clavichords, and a wide range of pianos, feature in what amounts to a ground-breaking social history of the piano.Richard Burnett is an international concert pianist who acquired Finchcocks, the beautiful Georgian mansion in 1971 as a home for his collection. His fascinating book ingeniously interweaves the biographies of the pianos with the history of the various manufacturing firms and the remarkable lives of some of the builders and the musicians associated with them, all set against the vividly depicted social backdrop of the periods under review.In the second part of his book, the author looks particularly at how the development of the instruments has influenced the output of the classical composers - Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Weber, Schubert and others. The fast-flowing anecdotal style of the writing means that this will be of interest and entertainment to the general reader, as well as those who already have some knowledge of the subject.The book also includes a comlimentary CD, in which the music of 33 of the Finchcocks period instruments can be heard being played by Richard Burnett and Steven Devine."This is a handsome book and it makes a fine coffee-table present for any music and piano lover." John Amis - broadcaster, music presenter, performer and the 'symphony man' in the long-running radio show, 'My Music'."This book is a landmark in music."Alan Hacker, OBE - one of the world's top clarinettist's."This is the best book I have read (or heard) on the subject and recommend it highly." Rick Ohlendorf, Piano Tuners Association News"After reading Company of Pianos, I found myself playing Beethoven with a heightened awareness ... and for that alone I am grateful." Angela Hewitt, Times Literary Supplement"Anecdotal, wryly humorous and authoritative ...the text of the Company of Pianos by itself would be an essential purchase for pianophiles. But the standard to which the book has been produced is something else." Jeremy Nicholas, Piano International''Company of Pianos might have been entitled 'In the Company of Richard Burnett'.... For those who do not know him and for us all, this is a work that reveals the delightful and impassioned character of one who has done so much for the historical piano, not only as a player and a collector but also as its advocate and true restorer''. Early Music Magazine"The author takes us on a social and historical journey that is entertaining, witty, lucid and informed, but never dull or pedantic. A delight to the mind, the ears and the eyes. The Company of Pianos is good company indeed." Southern California Early Music Society"Every music school, serious pianist, library and early-music enthusiast should have this wonderful volume." Paul James Dwyer, Opus Magazine"... No music lovers, be they pianists, listeners or historians can afford to be without this fascinating and enlightening book." Charlotte Ellis, Newsletter of the Dolmetch FoundationWritten by Richard Burnett

Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher:
ISBN: 1108421997
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 595

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The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.

Author: Robert Palmieri
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135949646
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 552

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First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 110709657X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 401

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The first comprehensive study of Bartolomeo Cristofori's working life, featuring detailed technical documentation about his instruments.

Author: Igor Kipnis
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135949786
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 571

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The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.

Author: Stewart Pollens
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521417297
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

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This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano.

Author: Albert Cohen
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1400853540
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 177

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This book describes a colorful period in French social and cultural history, during which music and science combined to provide the intellectual and aesthetic spirit of the Age of Enlightenment with an enormous vitality. Investigating the place assigned to music in France's preeminent scientific institution, the Paris Academy, the author shows the role played by the scientific movement in the evolution of musical thought prior to the Revolution. Originally published in 1982. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.