TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rowland,David
TI  - Early keyboard instruments: a practical guide / 
T2  - Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music
SN  - 9780511330018 (ebook)
PY  - 2001///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Keyboard instruments
KW  - Keyboard instrument music
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Performance practice (Music)
KW  - lcsh
N1  - Discusses performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries; Includes bibliographical references and index; Also available in printed form; Electronic reproduction; Askews and Holts; Mode of access: World Wide Web
N2  - Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to the music from c.1700-c.1900. It includes descriptions of the harpsichords, clavichords, pianos and other stringed-keyboard instruments used by performers of the period as well as aspects of technique such as harpsichord registration, piano pedalling and keyboard fingering. Aspects of the notation of keyboard music are discussed, as is articulation, embellishment, tempo flexibility and rubato. A substantial chapter is devoted to case studies, illustrating how the aspects of performance discussed in the rest of the book are worked out in practice, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano
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ER  -