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Author : Evan J. Kern
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (318 download)
Download or read book Harpsichord Design and Construction written by Evan J. Kern and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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 : Mark Kroll
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107156076
Total Pages : 407 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)
Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to the Harpsichord written by Mark Kroll and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-01-03 with total page 407 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covers every aspect of the harpsichord and its music, including composers, genres, national styles, tuning, and the art of harpsichord building.
Author : Alastair McAllister
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 0992287286
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (922 download)
Download or read book Talking Harpsichords written by Alastair McAllister and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2013-10-02 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Talking Harpsichords is an attempt to bring more into focus the world of the harpsichord. Importantly, it is also an expression of appreciation to all those who have helped this traveller achieve the making of some good instruments. In addition, the writer believes that we are, each one of us, and from time to time, entitled to be amused: so may it be.
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 : Edward L. Kottick
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 1469610604
Total Pages : 193 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (696 download)
Download or read book The Harpsichord Owner's Guide written by Edward L. Kottick and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2013-01-01 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperament. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.
Author : Edward L. Kottick
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253341662
Total Pages : 606 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (416 download)
Download or read book A History of the Harpsichord written by Edward L. Kottick and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over seven centuries.Based on painstaking research, the book considers the place of the instrument in society and vividly describes the market forces that brought about changes in its form, decoration, and cultural importance. An accompanying CDincludes performances on several of the historical instruments described and illustrated in the volume, including a 1580 spinett virginal by Martin van der Biest and instruments built by Ruckers and Pleyel. The volume devotes attention to American harpsichord design as well as to present and future uses of the instrument.Also of interestThe History of the PianoforteA Documentary in SoundEva Badura-Skoda0-253-33582-5 HB £37.95
Author : David Schulenberg
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803210516
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (15 download)
Download or read book The Music of J. S. Bach written by David Schulenberg and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1999-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume contains contributions by nine scholars on two broad themes: the analysis of Johann Sebastian Bach?s orchestral works, especially his concertos, and the interpretation and performance of his music in general. The contributors are a diverse group, active in the fields of performance, organology, music theory, and music history. Several work in more than one of these areas, making them particularly well prepared to write on the interdisciplinary themes of the volume. ø Part 1 includes Alfred Mann?s introduction to Bach?s orchestral music as well as essays by Gregory G. Butler and Jeanne Swack on the Brandenburg Concertos. Part 2 offers ground-breaking articles by John Koster and Mary Oleskiewicz on the harpsichords and flutes of Bach?s day as well as essays by David Schulenberg and William Renwick on keyboard performance practice and the study of fugue in Bach?s circle. Paul Walker explores the relationships between rhetoric and fugue, and John Butt reviews some recent trends in Bach performance.
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 1108421997
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)
Download or read book A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments written by Stewart Pollens and published by . This book was released on 2022-04-21 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.
Author : Sheridan Germann
Publisher : Pendragon Press
ISBN 13 : 9780945193753
Total Pages : 254 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (937 download)
Download or read book The Historical Harpsichord written by Sheridan Germann and published by Pendragon Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume IV of The Historical Harpsichord contains two monographs of major importance, Harpsichord Decoration: A Conspectus by Sheridan Germann, and A Fable Deconstructed: The 1770 Taskin at Yale by Richard Rephann. Sheridan Germann, an acclaimed scholar and practitioner in the field of harpsichord decoration, offers the first comprehensive illustrated conspectus of thesubject. In Part I Ms. Germann tells us that the styles of the decoration of harpsichords (and spinets, virginals and clavichords) tended to follow contemporary furniture fashions, but usually lagged conservatively behind the prevailing fashions. Because, unlike most furniture, the instruments are often dated, they provide rare documentation of how long these styles remained in common use. This survey follows chronologically the five major regional traditions of keyboard instrument decoration-Italian, Flemish, French, German and English-but with emphasis on the international changes in taste on which each region produced its own variations.In Part II, Richard Rephann of the Yale Musical Instrument Collection describes his research into the uniquely experimental construction of the 1770 Pascal Taskin harpsichord. This essay forms a pendant to William Dowd's in Vol. I that treats the surviving instruments of the Blanchet-Taskin workshop up to 1770. The romantic provenance of the 1770 Taskin, concocted by the antique trade to enhance the instrument's market value, is revealed as a fable.
Author : Donald Howard Boalch
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 830 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840 written by Donald Howard Boalch and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 1995 with total page 830 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third edition of Donald H. Boalch's Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840 is a complete revision of the second edition published in 1974. The volume is now divided into two parts. Part I contains biographical details of all known makers, including some 500 not listed previously, and updated entries for more than 400 makers appearing in the second edition. Enlarged (and in some cases extended) descriptions of more than 2,000 surviving instruments by the makers are consigned to Part II, and the whole is complemented by a number of tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and a new Index of Technical Terms in seven languages by Dr Andreas H. Roth.
Author : Richard Burnett
Publisher : Third Millennium Information Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781903942352
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (423 download)
Download or read book Company of Pianos written by Richard Burnett and published by Third Millennium Information Ltd. This book was released on 2004 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Burnett traces the development of the piano from its origins to the present day, using instruments from his internationally known collection, at the Finchcocks Museum in Kent, England, as the inspiration and navigational means for his story.
Author : Raymond Russell
Publisher : London : Faber and Faber
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Harpsichord and Clavichord written by Raymond Russell and published by London : Faber and Faber. This book was released on 1959 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Plinio Innocenzi
Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1527529193
Total Pages : 198 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (275 download)
Download or read book Technology and Performance during the Renaissance written by Plinio Innocenzi and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2023-09-18 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book opens a new window to understanding the important role music played in the Renaissance. It was a means of popular and court entertainment and a tool for displaying the magnificence and power achieved by the lords of the time. Leonardo da Vinci, despite not being very well known for this skill, was one of the most famous improvisers and performers of the lira da braccio. However, his multifaceted scientific and technological knowledge pushed him far beyond the limit of being a good performer; his codices contain reflections on music, studies on the origin of the sound, and an extraordinary catalogue of new musical instruments. The book highlights the fact that Leonardo's profound knowledge of the workings of machines and natural phenomena was the starting point in foreshadowing many of the innovations that would be introduced after his death. This book will be of interest to academics and students in fields such as music, engineering and the arts.
Author : Edwin M. Ripin
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393305159
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)
Download or read book Early Keyboard Instruments written by Edwin M. Ripin and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1989 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New Grove Musical Instruments Series, a companion to the much-acclaimed New Grove Composer Biography Series, presents in book form many of the lengthy and informative articles published in The New Grove Dictionary of Musical Instruments. Each book is a comprehensive guide to all facets of an instrument: its history, construction, repertory, playing techniques, and makers, written by leading authorities.
Author : Peter Walls
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351574728
Total Pages : 588 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (515 download)
Download or read book Baroque Music written by Peter Walls and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 588 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research in the 20th and 21st centuries into historical performance practice has changed not just the way performers approach music of the 17th and 18th centuries but, eventually, the way audiences listen to it. This volume, beginning with a 1915 Saint-Sa lecture on the performance of old music, sets out to capture musicological discussion that has actually changed the way Baroque music can sound. The articles deal with historical instruments, pitch, tuning, temperament, the nexus between technique and style, vibrato, the performance implications of musical scores, and some of the vexed questions relating to rhythmic alteration. It closes with a section on the musicological challenges to the ideology of the early music movement mounted (principally) in the 1990s. Leading writers on historical performance practice are represented. Recognizing that significant developments in historically-inspired performance have been led by instrument makers and performers, the volume also contains representative essays by key practitioners.
Author : David Tunley
Publisher : Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au
ISBN 13 : 0734037872
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (34 download)
Download or read book Destiny: The Extraordinary Career of Pianist Eileen Joyce written by David Tunley and published by Lyrebird Press lyrebirdpress.music.unimelb.edu.au. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Born in Tasmania, the Australian pianist Eileen Joyce was destined for the great concert halls of the world and a career that established her at the international pinnacle of twentieth-century pianism. In-depth essays in this book examine her studies in Germany, her appearances as a glamorous concert artist, her starring roles on film, her fascination with the harpsichord and embrace of early music, and her many acclaimed recordings. With listings of Joyce’s concerto and solo recital repertoire and the most complete discography to date, this is an informative new account of the extraordinary career of a consummate artist.
