LEADER 03255cam 2200361Ia 4500001 ocm35788988 003 OCoLC 005 20220708055510.0 008 961024t19621947mauagh b 001 0 eng d 035 (Sirsi) o35788988 035 (OCoLC)35788988 040 WVH |beng |cWVH |dOCLCG |dMOZ |dOCLCQ |dOCLCF |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dPHUST |dOCLCQ |dOCLCO |dERE |dUtOrBLW 049 EREM 050 4 ML700 |b.A6 1962 100 1 Apel, Willi, |d1893-1988. |=^A17621 245 10 Masters of the keyboard : |ba brief survey of pianoforte music / |cby Willi Apel. 246 30 Survey of pianoforte music 260 Cambridge, MA : |bHarvard University Press, |c1962, ©1947. 300 323 pages : |billustrations, facsimiles, music ; |c25 cm 336 text |btxt |2rdacontent 337 unmediated |bn |2rdamedia 338 volume |bnc |2rdacarrier 500 This book contains, with certain modifications and additions, the material of a series of eight lectures given in 1944 at the Lowell Institute of Boston under the title of 'History of Music for the Pianoforte'. 504 Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-317) and index. 505 00 |tThe keyboard instruments -- |tThe late Middle Ages: 1300-1500 -- |tThe Renaissance: 1500-1600 -- |tThe early Baroque period: 1600-1675 -- |tThe late Baroque period: 1675-1750 -- |tThe Rococo period: 1725-1775 -- |tClassicism: 1770-1830 -- |tRomanticism: 1830-1900 -- |tImpressionism and the new music: 1900-1940. 520 From the vast musical literature composed for organ, clavichord, harpsichord, and pianoforte from the Middle Ages to the present day, Apel has selected for reproduction one hundred and forty compositions--all but a few of them individually complete works, or independent sections of major works--which illustrate its entire development. Apel's text forms a continuous commentary on the significance of these musical examples for the development of keyboard music as a whole. His history is addressed mainly to the musical amateur, but based as it is on extensive musicological research it includes much material of interest to the student and scholar. In his opening chapters Apel picks up the threads of the earliest forms of keyboard instruments and music before 1500. In succeeding chapters he surveys sixteenth-century organ and virginal music; the Baroque and Rococo periods; the Classical period; the Romantic school; and, finally, modern piano music. Apel tells the story of this development in a readable manner, avoiding unnecessary technicalities, but fully and clearly explaining all technical terms used in the text. The distinguishing feature of his book is the inclusion, for the first time in any comparable work, of complete compositions rather than short musical illustrations: most of this valuable materials is not readily accessible to the amateur, nor even to many music students. 650 0 Piano music |xHistory and criticism. |=^A20345 650 0 Organ music |xHistory and criticism. |=^A31208 949 ML700 .A6 1962 |wLC |hJMUSIC53 |i30372017599637 |ojjam 994 C0 |bERE 596 3 998 5832315