The pianoforte / W. L. Sumner.

Author/creator Sumner, William Leslie
Format Book
Edition[New revised edition].
Publication InfoNew York : St. Martin's Press, 1971, ©1966.
Description223 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Subjects
Piano--History.

Contents Early keyboard instruments. The clavichord ; The harpsichord ; Other early instruments ; A note on the names of keyboard instruments ; A note on Virdung's keyboard instruments -- The early pianoforte. The double action ; The Viennese or German action ; The transition from harpsichord to pianoforte -- Nineteenth-century progress in pianoforte making. The piano as household orchestra ; The pianoforte in England ; The pianoforte in America ; The upright piano -- The pianoforte constructed. The sound-board ; The metal frame ; Strings and stringing ; The wrest-plank ; The action ; Keyboards and keys ; The hammers ; The pedal ; The soft pedal ; Sostenuto pedal ; The case -- Some links in the chain of music. The chain of communication ; Tone colour ; Tone colour and the player ; Dynamics and the sensation of loudness ; Temperament and tuning ; The mean-tone temperament ; Equal temperament ; How to calculate beat rates on the tempered scale ; Pitch ; Acoustics of auditoria -- Great pianoforte makers. Carl Bechstein ; Schiedmayer ; Johann Adolf Ibach ; Blüthner ; Chickering and Sons ; Steinway and Sons ; Mason and Hamlin ; Grotrian-Steinweg ; Bösendorfer ; Some French makers ; John Broadwood and Sons ; Charles H. Challen ; John Brinsmead ; Spencer ; Samuel Chappell ; Wornum ; Rogers -- Supply houses. Herrburger Brooks ; Louis Renner ; Fletcher and Newman -- Musicians and the pianoforte. C. P. E. Bach ; Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ; Franz Joseph Haydn ; Ludwig van Beethoven ; John Field ; Carl Maria von Weber ; Franz Schubert ; Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy ; Robert and Clara Schumann ; Frederic Chopin ; Franz Liszt ; Johannes Brahms ; Claude Achille Debussy -- Study writers and minor composers for the piano. Ignaz Moscheles ; Johann Nepomuk Hummel ; Muzio Clementi ; Carl Czerny ; John Baptist Cramer ; Sigismond Thalberg ; Jan Ladislav Dussek ; Friedrich Wilhelm Kalkbrenner ; Adolf Henselt ; Stephen Heller -- The technique of playing -- Some byways. Keyboards ; The player piano ; Transposition devices -- The pianoforte today -- Appendix: The chief clavichord and harpsichord composers ; The chief composers of pianoforte music.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliography (pages 206-217) and index.
LCCN 79148472
Stock number$7.95

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