Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.
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"Overall Rowland gives valuable practical information." CHOICE Nov 2001
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This title in the Historical Performance of Music series discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.
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It is a common assumption among musicians that certain performing styles are appropriate to particular parts of the repertory, or to the music of individual composers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paired fingerings, early pianoforte, keyboard tutors, early keyboard music, harpsichord making, mainstream repertory, tempo flexibility, buff stop, pianoforte school, keyboard repertory, stringed keyboard instruments, upper manual, stylistic awareness, early keyboard instruments, harpsichord music, continuo playing, knee levers, pedal markings, continuo part, articulation markings, lower manual, keyboard concertos, modern performers, tempo rubato, sustaining pedal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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It is a common assumption among musicians that certain performing styles are appropriate to particular parts of the repertory, or to the music of individual composers. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
paired fingerings, early pianoforte, keyboard tutors, early keyboard music, harpsichord making, mainstream repertory, tempo flexibility, buff stop, pianoforte school, keyboard repertory, stringed keyboard instruments, upper manual, stylistic awareness, early keyboard instruments, harpsichord music, continuo playing, knee levers, pedal markings, continuo part, articulation markings, lower manual, keyboard concertos, modern performers, tempo rubato, sustaining pedal Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Louis Couperin, François Couperin, Select Bibliography, Dover Publications, French Baroque, Leopold Mozart, Neue Bach-Ausgabe, Von Lenz New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Beethoven on Beethoven: Playing His Piano Music His Way by William S. Newman on 5 pages
- Performing Beethoven (Cambridge Studies in Performance Practice) by Robin Stowell on 4 pages
- Goldberg Variations: Piano Solo (Schirmer's Library of Musical Classics) by Ralph Kirkpatrick on page 3, page 49, and page 93
- Chopin Studies by Jim Samson in Back Matter
- The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Robin Stowell in Front Matter
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- The Cambridge Companion to the Concerto (Cambridge Companions to Music) by Simon P. Keefe in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- The Early Violin and Viola: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) by Robin Stowell in Front Matter
- Keyboard Music Before 1700 (Routledge Studies in Musical Genres) by Alexander Silbiger on page 394
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