Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide

ISBN-13: 9780521643856 / Angielski / Miękka / 2001 / 168 str.

David Rowland; Colin Lawson; Robin Stowell

Opis

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.

Recenzje

'… 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

Spis treści

1. Stylistic awareness and keyboard music; 2. Repertory, performance and notation; 3. The instruments; 4. Use of instruments and technique; 5. Non-notated and notated issues; 6. Case studies; 7. Continuo realisation.