Keyboard music before 1700 / edited by Alexander Silbiger.

Other author Silbiger, Alexander, 1935- editor.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1995.
Descriptionxiii, 373 pages : illustrations, map ; 25 cm.
Subjects
Keyboard instrument music--History and criticism.

SeriesStudies in musical genres and repertories
Studies in musical genres and repertories. ^A268936
Contents Introduction: the first centuries of European keyboard music / Alexander Silbiger. Notation ; The early repertory ; Genres and their contexts -- England / Alan Brown. The background ; The two sixteenth-century traditions ; William Byrd ; The later virginalists ; The mid-seventeenth century ; The age of Purcell -- France / Bruce Gustafson. Organ music. Plainchant ; Liturgy ; The Renaissance and pre-classic periods ; The classic period ; Harpsichord music. The Renaissance and pre-classic periods ; The classic period -- Germany and the Netherlands / John Butt. Conrad Paumann and the Buxheim organ book ; The early sixteenth century; The later sixteenth-century tablatures ; Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and his German pupils ; The mid-seventeenth century ; The later seventeenth century -- Italy / Robert Judd. Instruments ; The liturgy ; The music. The earliest evidence ; The early sixteenth century ; 1540 to 1620 ; Girolamo Frescobaldi ; 1630 to 1700 -- Spain and Portugal / Robert Parkins. The Iberian organ ; The nascent literature and the theorists ; Cabezon ; Aguilera de Heredia and the Aragonese school ; Coelho ; Correa de Arauxo ; Cabanilles -- Performance practice / Alexander Silbiger. Why study performance practice? ; A brief history ; The instruments and how to play them ; Pitch standards ; Tuning and temperament ; Body and hand positions ; Articulation ; Fingering ; Accidentals ; Tempo ; Repeats and first and second endings ; Ornamentation.
Abstract This book is an introduction and guide to the most significant keyboard literature of the Renaissance and early Baroque periods. Covering music written for organ as well as stringed keyboard instruments, this book surveys the central keyboard repertory before Bach, exploring through representative works the styles, textures, genres, instruments, and performance practices that characterize the keyboard music of this period. Because national musical traditions were quite distinct in this period, the volume is divided into chapters devoted to the main regions, with major composers treated within the context of national styles. Each chapter has been written by a specialist in the music of a particular region: Alan Brown writes on England, where Byrd and the virginalists began a tradition of finely crafted keyboard works; Bruce Gustafson on France, where the Couperins and other composers evolved a "classic" style all their own; John Butt on Germany, where the blind fifteenth-century organist Conrad Paumann became the first celebrity of the keyboard; Robert Judd on Italy, where grand basilicas inspired majestic compositions for the organ; and Robert Parkins on Spain and Portugal, where keyboard music retained a Renaissance flavor well into the seventeenth century. Editor Alexander Silbiger has supplied a general introduction to the rich and diverse keyboard repertory of the years before 1700.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 95010439
ISBN0028723910 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Music Music Stacks ML549 .K49 1995 ✔ Available Place Hold