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245 10 a| Early keyboard instruments :b| a practical guide /c| David Rowland.;

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300 a| xi, 154 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

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490 1 a| Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.;

520 a| This book covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as are matters such as articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. A select bibliography and extensive endnotes enable the reader to take all of the issues further.;

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Early keyboard instruments : a practical guide / David Rowland.

Author/creator	Rowland, David, 1957-
Format	Book
Publication Info	Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Description	xi, 154 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Subjects	Keyboard instruments. Keyboard instrument music--History and criticism. Performance practice (Music)

Series	Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music. ^A420193
Contents	Stylistic awareness and keyboard music -- Repertory, performance and notation. Choice and sources of repertory ; Repertories, performance traditions and keyboard tutors ; Editions and facsimiles ; Aspects of notation -- The instruments. Harpsichords ; Virginals and spinets ; Clavichords ; Pianos ; Temperaments ; Purchase, care and tuning of reproduction instruments -- Use of instruments and technique. Which instrument? ; Harpsichord registration ; Piano pedalling ; Hand position and finger technique ; Fingering and keyboard touch ; Some clavichord techniques -- Non-notated and notated issues. Improvisation and preluding ; Cadenzas, fermatas and lead-ins ; Embellishment ; Tempo fluctuation and tempo rubato ; Slurs, dots and wedges -- Case studies. Louis Couperin's suites ; J. S. Bach: French suite ; Haydn: Sonata in C minor, Hob.XVI:20 ; Mozart: Piano concerto in C major, K. 467 ; Beethoven: Sonata in D major, op. 10, no. 3 ; Chopin: Nocturne in Eb [E-flat], op. 9, no. 2 -- Continuo realisation. Instrumentation ; Texture and style ; Recitative accompaniment.
Abstract	This book covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as are matters such as articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano. A select bibliography and extensive endnotes enable the reader to take all of the issues further.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index.
LCCN	00062179
ISBN	052164366X
ISBN	0521643856 (pb)

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