Early Keyboard Instruments

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