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Origins of keyboard instruments [early references to keyboard instruments, early keyboard ranges and the inclusion of accidentals, types of stringed keyboard instruments, earliest examples of stringed keyboard instruments, configurations and structural parts of the basic types of keyboard instruments] -- Principles of design and construction [keyboard layout and dimensions, short-octave and broken-octave keyboards, pitch, choir and chamber pitch, long and short scaling, other considerations regarding scaling, the breaking frequency of strings, historic wire, wire gauges, keyboard instrument construction] -- The Henri Arnaut manuscript [clavichords, clavisimbalum, dulce melos] -- The Renaissance [the Italian school, Flemish and Antwerp-school keyboard instruments, Renaissance keyboards in Germany and France, English virginals, enharmonic keyboards] -- The Baroque period [Rameau, French temperament, J. S. Bach, Bach and the piano, Handel, Handel and the piano, the English harpsichord, Scarlatti] -- Invention of the piano [Cristofori] -- The Classical period [German/Viennese and English/French schools, Haydn, W. A. Mozart] -- The Romantic era [Beethoven, Schubert, Schumanns, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Liszt] -- Stagnation and revival [instrument collections, international expositions, reception of the harpsichord, the modern piano, revival of the harpsichord]. |
