Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide (Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music) - Softcover

Rowland, David

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0521643856 ISBN 13: 9780521643856

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Discusses performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.

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Review

'... it is, in fact, an excellent introduction ... I wish there had been a book like it when I was a school.' Clifford Bartlett, Early Music Review

'A significant body of information, lucid and succinct.' Early Music

'... the breadth and clarity of presentation and indexing will no doubt ensure that players of any keyboard instrument will want to have [this book] to hand for quick consultation and revision for many years to come.' The British Clavichord Society Newsletter

Book Description

Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for student performers or amateurs, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2014
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521643856
• ISBN 13: 9780521643856
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168