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History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments by Stewart Pollens (2024, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108434452

ISBN-139781108434454

eBay Product ID (ePID)5065350160

Product Key Features

Number of PagesXxi, 571 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameHistory of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

Publication Year2024

SubjectHistory & Criticism, General

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMusic

AuthorStewart Pollens

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Height1.2 in

Item Length10 in

Item Width7 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceCollege Audience

LCCN2021-024797

TitleLeadingA

Dewey Edition23

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal786.09

Table Of Content1. Origins of keyboard instruments; 2. Principles of design and construction; 3. The Henri Arnaut manuscript; 4. The renaissance; 5. The Baroque period; 6. Invention of the piano; 7. The classical period; 8. The romantic era; 9. Stagnation and revival; Bibliography; Index.

SynopsisThis book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources., A wide-ranging history of the piano, clavichord, and harpsichord, from their origins in the fourteenth century to the present. It will interest scholars, keyboard instrument players, makers and technicians, as well as those who simply enjoy listening to over five centuries of keyboard music.

LC Classification NumberML549.P64 2021