Early Keyboard Instruments: A Practical Guide

by David Rowland

Overview

Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521643665
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	04/02/2001
Series:	Cambridge Handbooks to the Historical Performance of Music
Pages:	168
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.51(d)
Lexile:	1660L (what's this?)

Table of Contents

1. Stylistic awareness and keyboard music; 2. Repertory, performance and notation; 3. The instruments; 4. Use of instruments and technique; 5. Non-notated and notated issues; 6. Case studies; 7. Continuo realisation.

Editorial Reviews

"Overall Rowland gives valuable practical information." CHOICE Nov 2001

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