Five centuries of keyboard music : an historical survey of music for harpsichord and piano / John Gillespie.

Author/creator Gillespie, John
Format Book
Publication InfoBelmont, CA : Wadsworth Publishing Company, ©1965.
Descriptionxiii, 463 pages, 8 pages of plates : illustrations, music ; 26 cm
Subjects
Harpsichord music--History and criticism.
Piano music--History and criticism.
Harpsichord--History.
Piano--History.
Harpsichord music--Analysis, appreciation.
Piano music--Analysis, appreciation.

Variant title 5 centuries of keyboard music
Contents Stringed keyboard instruments: their origins and development -- Early keyboard music -- Harpsichord music: its forms and characteristics -- English keyboard music through Purcell -- Italian cembalo music -- The French clavecinists -- Keyboard music in Belgium and Holland -- Keyboard music in Spain and Portugal in the eighteenth century -- Keyboard music in Germany and Austria in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries -- Bach and Handel -- Eighteenth-century classicism -- The sons of Bach and their contemporaries -- Haydn and Mozart -- Beethoven -- Romanticism -- The Romantic composers: Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn, and Schumann -- The Romantic composers: Chopin -- The Romantic composers: Liszt -- Technique and technicians -- Brahms and the late nineteenth century in Germany -- The Slavic countries in the Romantic era -- The north countries -- French piano music in the nineteenth century -- Early American piano music -- The Golden age of Spanish piano music -- Impressionism -- Debussy and Ravel -- The twentieth century -- Twentieth-century keyboard music: Germany, Austria, Italy, and the Slavic countries -- Twentieth-century keyboard music: France, Hungary, Holland, Spain, and England -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas: Canada -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas: Latin America -- Contemporary piano music in the Americas: the United States.
Abstract A practicing musician and professor of music offers the first work in English to comprehensively survey the development of solo keyboard works. The author discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano, including Bach, Handel, Mozart, Beethoven, and Debussy. Includes 116 musical examples, illustrations, and a glossary of musical terms.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical footnotes and bibliography (pages 442-446) and index.
LCCN 65010791

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