| Description |
xvi, 557 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustraiton (some color) ; 26 cm + 1 compact disc (digital ; 4 3/4 in.) |
| Physical Medium |
4 3/4 in. |
| Description |
1.4 m/s |
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digital recording |
| Note |
"Companion CD compiled by Edward L. Kottick"--CD liner notes. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-540) and index. |
| Contents |
The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From psaltery and monochord to harpsichord and virginal -- The sixteenth century. The emergence of the northern harpsichord ; Antwerp harpsichord building between Karest and Ruckers ; Early Italian style -- The seventeenth century. The Ruckers-Couchet dynasty ; Later Italian style ; Seventeenth-century international style ; France ; Germany and Austria ; England -- The eighteenth century. The decline of the Italian harpsichord ; The Iberian Peninsula ; Harpsichord building in France up to the revolution ; The Low Countries in the post-Ruckers era ; Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, and Switzerland ; Great Britain and America -- The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The harpsichord hibernates ; The harpsichord revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II ; The modern harpsichord ; Into the future. |
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Contents of compact disc: Flemish spinett virginal : Why ask you / Farnaby -- Flemish harpsichord : My Lady Nevill's ground / Byrd -- Sixteenth-century Italian virginal : La volta / Byrd -- Seventeenth-century Italian harpsichord : Toccata / Picci -- Italian octave spinet : Tedesca dita la proficia / Facoli -- Seventeenth-century French harpsichord : Les rozeaux / Couperin -- Seventeenth-century German harpsichord : Toccata nona / Frescobaldi -- Seventeenth-century English virginal : Les buffons / Bull -- Eighteenth-century Cristofori-action Portuguese piano : Toccata in G. Andante con gran espressione / Carvalho -- Eighteenth-century French harpsichord : La forqueray / Duphly -- Eighteenth-century Flemish harpsichord : First suite. Adagio / Fiocco -- Eighteenth-century North-German harpsichord : Goldberg variations. Variation 16 / Bach -- English bentside spinet : Almand in G / Croft -- Eighteenth-century English harpsichord : Sonata no. 7 / Arne -- Eighteenth-century English harpsichord (with machine and Venetian swell) : Zadok and the priest. Introduction / Handel, arr. Mobbs -- Twentieth-century revival harpsichord, Pleyel Grand Modèle de Concert : Italian concerto. Allegro / Bach -- Twentieth-century revival harpsichord, Neupert with Bach disposition : Duetto in F / Bach -- Twentieth-century revival harpsichord, John Challis : Sonata 35 ; Sonata 36 / Scarlatti -- Late-twentieth-century harpsichord : Suite in C. Passacaille / Couperin. |
| Subject |
Harpsichord -- History.
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Harpsichord. |
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History. |
| Genre/Form |
Sound recordings.
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Sound recordings.
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| ISBN |
0253341663 alkaline paper |
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