How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? - 2nd Edition — A History of Keyboard Technique

Hinshaw Music

How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? - 2nd Edition — A History of Keyboard Technique

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This book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. It discusses all the instruments – organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano, including quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books. There are chapters dedicated to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, and major sections on such great performers and composers as Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff. This book belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher.

Product Details

Subtitle
A History of Keyboard Technique
Series
Hinshaw Music
Style
Piano Reference, Technique
Format
Book/Online Audio
Pages
456
Instruments
TROMBONE I - II
First Published
February 2019
ISBN
1934596132
Table of Contents (829 items)
  1. ["INTRODUCTION", "BIBLIOGRAPHY", "CHAPTER 1-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN GERMANY AND THE NETHERLANDS", "CHAPTER 2-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN SPAIN", "CHAPTER 3-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN ENGLAND", "CHAPTER 4-EARLY KEYBOARD PLAYING IN ITALY", "CHAPTER 5-FRENCH CLASSIC KEYBOARD PLAYING", "CHAPTER 6-GERMAN KEYBOARD PLAYING AT THE TIME OF BACH", "CHAPTER 7-JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH", "CHAPTER 8-CLAVICHORD AND HARPSICHORD TO FORTEPIANO", "CHAPTER 9-THE FIRST PIANISTS", "CHAPTER 10-LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN", "CHAPTER 11-CONTEMPORARIES OF BEETHOVEN", "CHAPTER 12-MENDELSSOHN AND FRIENDS", "CHAPTER 13-THE SCHUMANN CIRCLE", "CHAPTER 14-FREDERIC CHOPIN", "CHAPTER 15-FRANZ LISZT", "CHAPTER 16-VIRTUOSI", "CHAPTER 17-PEDAGOGUES", "CHAPTER 18-FRENCH PIANISM", "CHAPTER 19-RUSSIAN PIANISM", "CHAPTER 20-A SEPARATE TECHNIQUE FOR THE OPERA", "INDEX"]
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