This is the first reference book to include the historical background on all major piano composers, their individual styles, analysis of their compositions, and listings of their major keyboard works. Essential reading for all piano lovers, Three Hundred Years at the Keyboard will provide readers with a continuing source of pleasure, convenience, and motivation.
Unique in its breadth of material, Three Hundred Years at the Keyboard covers piano origins, changing styles in piano technique, suggested editions, discussion on the various schools of piano playing, and reflection on musical traditions in Europe, Japan, and North and South America.
Patricia Fallows-Hammond is an experienced performer and co-founder of the well known Chamber of Music Series in Honolulu. She has studied with Alfred Cortot and Yvonne Lefebure in the Ecole Nor-male in Paris, with Albert Elkus of the University of California, Berkeley, and with Adolph Bailer at Stanford University.
Over 130 schools have used this book and it has received recommended reviews in The American Organist, Clavier Magazine, Keyboard Magazine, Choice Magazine and Booklist (the American Library Association).
