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Title:
Early keyboard instruments : a practical guide / David Rowland.
Author:
Rowland, David (David E.), 1957-
Publication Information:
Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Call Number:
ML549 .R69 2001
Abstract:
"Early Keyboard Instruments covers a wide range of performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century. 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 are matters such as 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.

A select bibliography and extensive endnotes enable the reader to take all of the issues further."--Jacket.
ISBN:
9780521643665

9780521643856
Series:
Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music

Cambridge handbooks to the historical performance of music.
Physical Description:
xi, 154 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Contents:
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.
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