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Author : Malcolm Rose
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book A Handbook of Historical Stringing Practice for Keyboard Instruments written by Malcolm Rose and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108386482
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (83 download)
Download or read book A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments written by Stewart Pollens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.
Author : Thomas Donahue
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442243457
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)
Download or read book The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook written by Thomas Donahue and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2015-06-11 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the interruption in its history as a more regularly used instrument, many details about its construction are lacking. In The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook, Thomas Donahue integrates available historical evidence and modern physical principles—from both musicological and scientific literature—to provide practical quantitative information about the stringing of this instrument. The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook covers the composition and properties of iron and brass wire, the interrelationship of frequency to string length, safety factors involved with stringing, the scaling of string lengths, the calculation of diameters, and the determination of the transition from iron to brass in mixed-strung instruments. Supplemental topics include the elasticity and plasticity of wire, inharmonicity, tension and stress, and the interpolation of string lengths. Additional material includes data on selected historical harpsichords, absolute diameters of historical gauge numbering systems, a generated list of tensile strength values for historical wire, and sizes and tensile strengths of currently available wire. This book offers specific guidance for instrument makers, restorers, curators, technicians, musicians, kit builders, wire manufacturers, and acousticians, filling in critical details that historical treatises and surviving instruments may not clearly address.
Author : Robert Palmieri
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135949638
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Piano written by Robert Palmieri and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004-06-01 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316299708
Total Pages : 829 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (162 download)
Download or read book The Manual of Musical Instrument Conservation written by Stewart Pollens and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2015-07-09 with total page 829 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book to combine museum-based conservation techniques with practical instructions on the maintenance, repair, adjustment, and tuning of virtually every type of historical musical instrument. As one of the world's leading conservators of musical instruments, Stewart Pollens gives practical advice on the handling, storage, display and use of historic musical instruments in museums and other settings, and provides technical information on such wide-ranging subjects as acoustics, cleaning, climate control, corrosion, disinfestation, conservation ethics, historic stringing practice, measurement and historic metrology, retouching, tuning historic temperaments, varnish and writing reports. There are informative essays on the conservation of each of the major musical instrument groups, the treatment of paper, textiles, wood and metal, as well as historic techniques of wood and metalworking as they apply to musical instrument making and repair. This is a practical guide that includes equations, formulas, tables and step-by-step instructions.
Author : Igor Kipnis
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135949786
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (359 download)
Download or read book The Harpsichord and Clavichord written by Igor Kipnis and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Author : Jean Louchet
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1446111296
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (461 download)
Download or read book Latest edition of The keyboard stringing guide (hardcover) written by Jean Louchet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ann Bond
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9781574670639
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (76 download)
Download or read book A Guide to the Harpsichord written by Ann Bond and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2003-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This practical guide treats the mechanics and evolution of the instrument, and offers a survey of its literature. The author provides valuable advice on touch and technique, including articulation and fingering, with a lucid exposition of the issues involved in historical performance practice and a clear explanation of ornamentation. The repertoire of each of the great national schools is presented and discussed, with four representative pieces singled out for detailed analysis. More advanced players will welcome the author's suggestions on continuo playing and the helpful discussion of tuning and temperaments. From advice on acquiring a harpsichord, to wise counsel on how to play it and what music to choose, to suggestions on maintenance and tuning, A Guide to the Harpsichord is an indispensable companion for both beginning and advanced harpsichordists.
Author : Geoffrey Lancaster
Publisher : ANU Press
ISBN 13 : 1922144657
Total Pages : 919 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (221 download)
Download or read book The First Fleet Piano: Volume One written by Geoffrey Lancaster and published by ANU Press. This book was released on 2015-11-03 with total page 919 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.
Author : American Musical Instrument Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Journal of the American Musical Instrument Society written by American Musical Instrument Society and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Nicholas J. Giordano
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192506633
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (925 download)
Download or read book Physics of the Piano written by Nicholas J. Giordano and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-27 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why does a piano sound like a piano? A similar question can be asked of virtually all musical instruments. A particular note-such as middle C-can be produced by a piano, a violin, a clarinet, and many other instruments, yet it is easy for even a musically untrained listener to distinguish between these different instruments. A central quest in the study of musical instruments is to understand why the sound of the "same" note depends greatly on the instrument, and to elucidate which aspects of an instrument are most critical in producing the musical tones characteristic of the instrument. The primary goal of this book is to investigate these questions for the piano. The explanations in this book use a minimum of mathematics, and are intended for anyone who is interested in music and musical instruments. At the same time, there are many insights relating physics and the piano that will likely be interesting and perhaps surprising for many physicists.
Author : Jean Louchet
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 9781445710334
Total Pages : 170 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (13 download)
Download or read book The Keyboard Stringing Guide written by Jean Louchet and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2010-03-11 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: * NEW, SECOND EDITION (1st February 2010)* This is a technical book aimed at the design and restoration of pianos, fortepianos, harpsichords, clavichords. It contains all the useful theoretical tools and explanations (including new accurate formulas on overspun strings) in order to create a consistent stringing scheme. It is targeted at professional musicians, organologists, collectors, designers, restorers facing complex restoration projects, in particular when information about original stringing has been lost or altered. It will be of interest to any musician or scientist willing to better understand the design principles of cordophones in general.
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Early Keyboard Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Michael Latcham
Publisher : Spotlight Poets
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Stringing, Scaling and Pitch of Hammerflügel Built in the Southern German and Viennese Traditions 1780-1820: Text written by Michael Latcham and published by Spotlight Poets. This book was released on 2000 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This reference classic has approximately doubled in size since its last publication 20 years ago, and the expansion involves more than the thorough revision and addition of articles about music of the past. More articles about 20th-century composers and composer-performers have been added, as well as topical articles about the gender-related, multicultural, and interdisciplinary ways that music is now being studied. Add to these changes that New Grove is also available online, making it a source that would have made its many-faceted creator Sir George Grove proud"--Outstanding reference sources, American Libraries, May 2002.
Author : Stanley Sadie
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 964 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)
Download or read book The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians: Harpeþgeþ to Hutton written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 964 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : Stanley Sadie
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 944 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The new Grove dictionary of music and musicians : [in twenty-nine volumes]. 16. Martín y Coll to Monn written by Stanley Sadie and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 944 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
