The history of the piano and roles it has taken in the developement of modern music. Explores areas of interest from the piano in the public performance to the piano in the parlor.
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A delightful, lively, entertaining history.,
By Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano (Hardcover)
Three hundred years of piano history are presented in a fine book which considers the place of the piano in classical and popular music alike. From the design, manufacturing and styles of the piano to the individuals who made their mark in music history with the piano, this includes a delightful range of color drawings and illustrations along with a lively history certain to delight any avid fan of the instrument.
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TICKLING THOSE IVORIES ... AND DOING SUCH A GRAND JOB!,
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This review is from: Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano (Hardcover)
Call this one an important lesson in the key of life. To celebrate the 300th birthday of everyone's fave instrument, author James Parakilas has written a book at once awesome and astounding, a stunning cultural history, told in vivid detail and ample anecdotes and stunning color photographs, of the musical and social roles that the piano has played in its long and amazing career. (It became so popular, for instance, as the result of not just ingenious mechanical design but also ingenious marketing.) An important book whether your tastes run to Beatles or Berlin, Liszt or Liberace. Tickle on!
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In Irving Berlin's Stop! Look! Listen!which opened on Broadway on Christmas Day, 1915the song "I Love a Piano" was staged as a lavish production number: the singer Harry Fox and the chorus girls, accompanied by six pianists on six pianos, strutted in front of a giant keyboard that reached across the stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, United States, E-flat Major, The Piano Lesson, Franz Liszt, Major Sonata, Paris Conservatory, Tokyo School of Music, Duke Ellington, Leipzig Conservatory, New England, Arthur Loesser, Carl Czerny, Charles Burney, Clara Schumann, Ignaz Moscheles, Iwakura Embassy, Minor Sonata, Ruth Crawford, B-flat Major, Barbara Ployer, George Sand, Jane Austen, Johann Andreas Stein New!
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In Irving Berlin's Stop! Look! Listen!which opened on Broadway on Christmas Day, 1915the song "I Love a Piano" was staged as a lavish production number: the singer Harry Fox and the chorus girls, accompanied by six pianists on six pianos, strutted in front of a giant keyboard that reached across the stage. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, World War, United States, E-flat Major, The Piano Lesson, Franz Liszt, Major Sonata, Paris Conservatory, Tokyo School of Music, Duke Ellington, Leipzig Conservatory, New England, Arthur Loesser, Carl Czerny, Charles Burney, Clara Schumann, Ignaz Moscheles, Iwakura Embassy, Minor Sonata, Ruth Crawford, B-flat Major, Barbara Ployer, George Sand, Jane Austen, Johann Andreas Stein New!
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- Franz Liszt by Alan Walker on 4 pages
- Music and Musicians: Essays and Criticisms by Robert Schumann in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
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- The Virtuoso Liszt (New Perspectives in Music History and Criticism) by Dana Gooley in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Bach in Berlin: Nation and Culture in Mendelssohns Revival of the St. Matthew Passion by Celia Applegate on page 151, and Back Matter
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