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Early keyboard instruments : a practical guide /
Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for student performers or amateurs, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2001.
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| Colección: | Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Stylistic awareness and keyboard music
- Repertory, performance and notation. Choice and sources of repertory. Repertories, performance traditions and keyboard tutors. Editions and facsimiles. Aspects of notation
- The instruments. Harpsichords. Virginals and spinets. Clavichords. Pianos. Temperaments. Purchase, care and tuning of reproduction instruments
- Use of instruments and technique. Which instrument? . Harpsichord registration. Piano pedalling. Hand position and finger technique. Fingering and keyboard touch. Some clavichord techniques
- Non-notated and notated issues. Improvisation and preluding . Cadenzas, fermatas and lead-ins. Embellishment. Tempo fluctuation and tempo rubato. Slurs, dots and wedges. Spread chords
- Case studies. Louis Couperin's suites. J.S. Bach: French Overture. Haydn: Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20 . Mozart: Piano Concerto in C Major, K.467. Beethoven: Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3. Chopin: Nocturne in E♭, Op. 9, No. 2
- Continuo realisation. Instrumentation. Texture and style. Recitative accompaniment.