Stewart Pollens

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A wide-ranging history of the piano, clavichord, and harpsichord, from their origins in the fourteenth century to the present. It will interest scholars, keyboard instrument players, makers and technicians, as well as those who simply enjoy listening to over five centuries of keyboard music.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. April 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 262mm x 190mm x 35mm
• Gewicht: 1382g
• ISBN-13: 9781108421997
• ISBN-10: 1108421997
• Artikelnr.: 62352191

Autorenporträt

Trained as a harpsichord, organ, and violin maker, Stewart Pollens served as the conservator of musical instruments at The Metropolitan Museum of Art from 1976 to 2006. He has published widely on the history of musical instruments and is the recipient of the American Musical Instrument Society's 1997 Bessaraboff Prize for The Early Pianoforte (Cambridge University Press, 1995).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Origins of keyboard instruments
2. Principles of design and construction
3. The Henri Arnaut manuscript
4. The renaissance
5. The Baroque period
6. Invention of the piano
7. The classical period
8. The romantic era
9. Stagnation and revival
Bibliography
Index.