A Plain & Easy Introduction to the Harpsichord

A Plain & Easy Introduction to the Harpsichord

Author: Ruth Nurmi

Publisher: Scarecrow Press

Published: 1986

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780810818866

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Provides basic information on the harpsichord, best-known instrument of baroque music, including physical properties, kinds of harpsichords available, instruction on tuning and common maintenance problems, explanations of technique and fingering, tempo, registration, ensemble playing, and special notational problems.


The Harpsichord and Clavichord

The Harpsichord and Clavichord

Author: Igor Kipnis

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 1323

ISBN-13: 1135949778

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The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.


Talking Harpsichords

Talking Harpsichords

Author: Alastair McAllister

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2013-10-02

Total Pages: 182

ISBN-13: 0992287286

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Talking Harpsichords is an attempt to bring more into focus the world of the harpsichord. Importantly, it is also an expression of appreciation to all those who have helped this traveller achieve the making of some good instruments. In addition, the writer believes that we are, each one of us, and from time to time, entitled to be amused: so may it be.


Research Materials in Music

Research Materials in Music

Author: Phillip R. Rehfeldt

Publisher: Phillip Rehfeldt/MillCreekPublishing

Published: 1990-01-01

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0933251114

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This text was developed for use in a standard college-level "introduction to graduate studies" course in musicology that I taught for thirty-three years at the University of Redlands.


Historical Harpsichord Technique

Historical Harpsichord Technique

Author: Yonit Lea Kosovske

Publisher: Indiana University Press

Published: 2011-07-11

Total Pages: 238

ISBN-13: 0253001455

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Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in the modern player. Reviewing the work of the pedagogues and performers of the late Renaissance through the late Baroque, she gives special emphasis to la douceur du toucher or a gentle touch. Other topics addressed include posture, early pedagogy, exercises, articulation, and fingering patterns. Illustrated with musical examples as well as photos of the author at the keyboard, Historical Harpsichord Technique can be used for individual or group lessons and for amateurs and professionals.


The Art of Classical Guitar Playing

The Art of Classical Guitar Playing

Author: Charles Duncan

Publisher: Alfred Music

Published: 1995-09-22

Total Pages: 144

ISBN-13: 9781457400391

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Not a "method" in the traditional sense, this book explains what happens in the finest classical guitar playing and what in turn the student can do to mold his or her playing to that ideal.


Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Instrumental Teaching in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Author: David Golby

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-06-17

Total Pages: 386

ISBN-13: 1317220722

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First published in 2004, this book demonstrates that while Britain produced many fewer instrumental virtuosi than its foreign neighbours, there developed a more serious and widespread interest in the cultivation of music throughout the nineteenth century. Taking a predominantly historical approach, the book moves from a discussion of general developments and issues to a detailed examination of violin pedagogy, method and content, which indicates society’s influence on cultural trends and informs the discussion of other instruments and institutional training that follows. In the first study of its kind, it examines in depth the inextricable links between trends in society, education and levels of achievement. It also extends beyond profession and ‘art’ music to amateur and ‘popular’ spheres. A useful chronology of developments in nineteenth-century British music education is also included. This book will be of interest to those studying the history of instrumental teaching and Victorian music.