Early Keyboard Instruments

Early Keyboard Instruments

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Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for student performers or amateurs, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

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Early Keyboard Instruments by David Rowland

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.
'… it is, in fact, an excellent introduction … I wish there had been a book like it when I was a school' Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review
'A significant body of information, lucid and succinct.' Early Music
'… the breadth and clarity of presentation and indexing will no doubt ensure that players of any keyboard instrument will want to have [this book] to hand for quick consultation and revision for many years to come.' The British Clavichord Society Newsletter
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ISBN 13 9780521643856
ISBN 10 0521643856
Title Early Keyboard Instruments
Author David Rowland
Series Cambridge Handbooks To The Historical Performance Of Music
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Year published 2001-03-26
Number of pages 168
Cover note Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.