Description |
viii, 194 pages : illustrations, music ; 26 cm. |
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Cambridge musical texts and monographs
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Cambridge musical texts and monographs.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 187-190) and index. |
Contents |
Part I. Instruments: 1. Transition from the harpsichord and clavichord to the piano; 2. Stops, levers and pedals -- Part II. Pedalling and the early pianists: 3. Documentary accounts of early pedalling; 4. Early techniques of the pedals as described in tutors; 5. Early pedal markings; 6. Mozart and his contemporaries -- Part III. Pedalling after c.1800: 7. Emergence of modern pedalling; 8. Sustaining pedal after c. 1800; 9. Other pedals from c.1800 -- Appendix. Chapters on pedalling from piano tutors: J.P. Milchmeyer, Die wahre Art das Pianoforte zu spielen. Chapter 5 (Dresden 1797) ; Louis Adam, Méthode de piano du Conservatoire, Chapter 10: The manner of using the pedals (Paris 1804) ; Daniel Steibelt, Méthode de piano (Paris and Leipzig 1809). |
Subject |
Piano -- Pedaling -- History.
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Piano -- Pedaling. |
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History. |
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Piano -- Performance -- History.
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Piano -- Performance. |
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Piano -- History.
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Piano. |
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Piano pedagogy.
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ISBN |
0521402662 hardback |
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