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010 a| 97015105;

020 a| 0198166346;

035 a| (Sirsi) o36954509;

035 a| (OCoLC)36954509;

040 a| DLCc| DLCd| EREd| UtOrBLW;

049 a| EREMa| NPEE;

050 00 a| ML655b| .C63 1998;

082 00 a| 786.2/09/0332| 21;

092 a| 786.209033b| C67p;

100 1 a| Cole, Michael,d| 1942-?| UNAUTHORIZED;

245 14 a| The pianoforte in the classical era /c| Michael Cole.;

260 a| Oxford [England] :b| Clarendon Press,c| 1998.;

300 a| xiv, 398 pages, 24 pages of plates :b| illustrations, music ;c| 24 cm;

336 a| text2| rdacontent;

337 a| unmediated2| rdamedia;

338 a| volume2| rdacarrier;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-391) and index.;

520 a| This book charts the progress of the piano and related instruments during the lifetimes of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Wherever possible the author returns to the original sources--a wide variety of previously unreported documents, as well as surviving instruments--to reconstruct the history of the pianoforte that radically departs from earlier theories of many of the most fundamental issues. A wide range of instruments, each carefully described, is placed in a precise chronological and cultural setting. New insights are offered into the parameters that governed the performance of keyboard music in the Classical era.;

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The pianoforte in the classical era / Michael Cole.

Author/creator	Cole, Michael, 1942-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Oxford [England] : Clarendon Press, 1998.
Description	xiv, 398 pages, 24 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 24 cm
Subjects	Piano--History. --18th century.

Contents	The early piano I -- The early piano II -- John Zumpe and the English pianoforte -- After Zumpe: small pianos in Europe and America, 1770-1795 -- Buying a pianoforte: extracts from the Twining-Burney correspondence -- Beyond Zumpe: improvements to the English square piano after 1780 -- Americus backers and the English grand piano -- The English grand, 1778-1805 -- Pianoforte or pantalon? The origins of German Tafelklaviere -- Johann Andreas Stein and the German grand piano -- Keyboard instruments in Germany and Austria, 1770-1790: an overview -- Mozart's own fortepiano -- In Vienna -- Harpsichord, pianoforte, and combination instruments -- The upright pianoforte: the genesis of upright forms -- Into the nineteenth century -- Construction of the early piano -- At the keyboard: touch and tone in the early piano -- Fakes, frauds, and forgeries -- Envoi -- Appendix I. Selected passages from early sources.
Abstract	This book charts the progress of the piano and related instruments during the lifetimes of Mozart, Haydn, and Beethoven. Wherever possible the author returns to the original sources--a wide variety of previously unreported documents, as well as surviving instruments--to reconstruct the history of the pianoforte that radically departs from earlier theories of many of the most fundamental issues. A wide range of instruments, each carefully described, is placed in a precise chronological and cultural setting. New insights are offered into the parameters that governed the performance of keyboard music in the Classical era.
Local note	Little-319730--305131040942W
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 386-391) and index.
LCCN	97015105
ISBN	0198166346

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