Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle

Isacoff, Stuart

ISBN 10: 0375403558 / ISBN 13: 9780375403552

Published by Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 2001

About this Item

8vo, 259 pp.

Seller Inventory # 030366

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Temperament: The Idea That Solved Music's Greatest Riddle
• Publisher: Alfred A. Knopf, New York
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0375403558
• ISBN 13: 9780375403552
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illustrated
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Music

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Synopsis

Explores the eighteenth-century musical breakthrough that led to the creation of the modern piano keyboard, which greatly expanded the creative possibilities of classical composition.

About the Author

Stuart Isacoff, a recipient of the ASCAP Deems Taylor Award for excellence in writing about music, is a pianist, lecturer, composer, and the creator and editor in chief of the country's largest-circulation classical piano magazine, <i>Piano Today</i>. He has contributed to <i>The New Grove Dictionary of American Music</i> and has written for the <i>New York Times</i>. He lives in Bergen County, New Jersey.