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Early Keyboard Instruments

Early Keyboard Instruments

Early Keyboard Instruments

A Practical Guide
David Rowland, The Open University, Milton Keynes
March 2001
Paperback
9780521643856

    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.

    • Wide range of historical issues covered in a short space
    • A practical investigation of the issues, which will enable readers to translate what they discover into their own performances
    • Written by an author who has direct experience of researching and performing repertory

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

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    Product details

    March 2001
    Paperback
    9780521643856
    168 pages
    229 × 152 × 10 mm
    0.243kg
    52 music examples
    Available

    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.
      Author
    • David Rowland , The Open University, Milton Keynes