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  • Studies on Authorship in Historical Keyboard Music

    Edited by Andrew Woolley ...
    Series series Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series
    Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely, and some controversies concerned with major figures have even reached wider consciousness. Scholars have clarified some of the issues at stake in recent decades, such as the places of borrowing and arranging in the creative process and the wider cultural significance of these practices. The discovery of new ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Interpreting Historical Keyboard Music

    Sources, Contexts and Performance

    by Andrew Woolley, John Kitchen ...
    Series series Ashgate Historical Keyboard Series
    Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ’workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • Piano Notes

    The World of the Pianist

    by Charles Rosen ...
    Charles Rosen is one of the world's most talented pianists -- and one of music's most astute commentators. Known as a performer of Bach, Beethoven, Stravinsky, and Elliott Carter, he has also written highly acclaimed criticism for sophisticated students and professionals.In Piano Notes, he writes for a broader audience about an old friend -- the piano itself. Drawing upon a lifetime of wisdom and ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • A Natural History of the Piano

    The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
    A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Temperament

    How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization

    by Stuart Isacoff ...
    Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient Greeks through the eras of Renaissance scientists and Enlightenment philosophers, the ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers

    Enriched edition. Unlocking the Secrets of Piano Mastery: Insights from Maestros

    by Harriette Brower, Levi Parker ...
    In "Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers," Harriette Brower offers a rich tapestry of insights into the world of piano playing through candid conversations with esteemed pianists and teachers. This meticulously crafted work melds biographical sketches with practical advice, revealing the techniques and philosophies that have shaped successful careers. Brower employs a ... Read more

    $1.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Off the Record

    Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing

    by Neal Peres da Costa ...
    Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century. Placing general practices of late ... Read more

    $75.59 USD

  • Bach

    A Musical Biography

    by Peter Williams ...
    J. S. Bach composed some of the best-loved and most moving music in Western culture. Surviving mostly in manuscript collections, his music also exists in special and unique publications that reveal much about his life and thoughts as a composer. In this book, Peter Williams, author of the acclaimed J. S. Bach: A Life in Music, revisits Bach's biography through the lens of his music. Reviewing all ... Read more

    $45.09 USD

  • Bach's Feet

    The Organ Pedals in European Culture

    by David Yearsley ...
    Series series Musical Performance and Reception
    The organist seated at the king of instruments with thousands of pipes rising all around him, his hands busy at the manuals and his feet patrolling the pedalboard, is a symbol of musical self-sufficiency yielding musical possibilities beyond that of any other mode of solo performance. In this book, David Yearsley presents an interpretation of the significance of the oldest and richest of European ... Read more

    $30.39 USD

  • Mozart's Piano Music

    by William Kinderman ...
    Mozart's emergence as a mature artist coincides with the rise to prominence of the piano, an instrument that came alive under his fingers and served as medium for many of his finest compositions. In Mozart's Piano Music, William Kinderman reconsiders common assumptions about Mozart's life and art while offering comprehensive and incisive commentary on the solo music and concertos. After placing ... Read more

    $62.99 USD

  • The Composer's Landscape

    The Pianist as Explorer - Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters

    by Carol Montparker ...
    Series series Amadeus
    Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

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  • The Hammond Organ

    by Kenneth A. Hallett ...
    This vintage book contains a detailed guide to the Hammond organ, being a complete manual on the principles of organ plating with reference to arrangements from Tchaikovsky, Brahms, and more. The Hammond organ is an electric organ that was invented by Laurens Hammond and John M., first manufactured in 1935. Contents include: “The Colors of the Drawbars”, “Operation of the Hammond Organ”, “Starting ... Read more

    $6.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus