The Clavichord

The Clavichord
Author: Bernard Brauchli
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 410
Release: 1998-11-19
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780521630672

This is a richly illustrated history of the clavichord, the forerunner of the modern piano.

Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century

Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century
Author: Rachelle Taylor
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 337
Release: 2017-12-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1351254944

The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements rooted respectively in nineteenth-century antiquarianism and in rediscovery of the value of original instruments. The present volume is a collection of insights reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b. 1931) as one of this revival’s leaders. The content reflects international research on early keyboard music, sources, instruments, theory, editing, and discography. Considerations that echo throughout the book are the problematics of source attributions, progressive institutionalization of early music, historical instruments as agents of artistic change and education, antecedents and networks of the revival seen as a social phenomenon, the impact of historical performance and the quest for understanding style and genre. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.

Harpsichord and Clavichord Music of the Twentieth Century

Harpsichord and Clavichord Music of the Twentieth Century
Author: Frances Bedford
Publisher: Berkeley, Calif. : Fallen Leaf Press
Total Pages: 674
Release: 1993
Genre: Music
ISBN:

This bibliography gives essential information on some 5,400 works for harpsichord and 174 works for clavichord. In addition to solo compositions it cites a wide array of chamber, orchestra, vocal, dance, tape, and film music. Works are indexed by composers and titles, by performers who gave premieres, and by female composers.

The Harpsichord and Clavichord

The Harpsichord and Clavichord
Author: Igor Kipnis
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 571
Release: 2013-04-15
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1135949786

The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music

Five Centuries of Keyboard Music
Author: John Gillespie
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 514
Release: 2013-04-09
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0486318796

Gillespie discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.

The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord

The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord
Author: Mark Kroll
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 407
Release: 2019-01-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1107156076

Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.

English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century

English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century
Author: John Caldwell
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Total Pages: 376
Release: 1985-01-01
Genre: Music
ISBN: 9780486248516

English keyboard art from Robertsbridge Codex (c. 1325) to John Field. Illuminating coverage of organ, harpsichord, pianoforte, other instruments; works of Tallis, Byrd, Gibbons, Tomkins, many others. Bibliography.