How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? - 2nd Edition
A History of Keyboard Technique
How Did They Play? How Did They Teach? - 2nd Edition
A History of Keyboard Technique
- Instrumentation Literature
- Series Hinshaw Music
- Edition Book and Online Audio
- Publisher Hinshaw Music
- Order no. 00289752
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Description:
This book traces keyboard playing from its beginnings to the end of the 19th century. It discusses all the instruments - organ, harpsichord, clavichord, and piano, including quotes from letters, diaries, reviews, and method books. There are chapters dedicated to Bach, Beethoven, Chopin and Liszt, and major sections on such great performers and composers as Frescobaldi and Couperin to Debussy and Rachmaninoff. This book belongs in the library of every keyboard performer and teacher.