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A history of keyboard literature : music for the piano and its forerunners / Stewart Gordon.
| Author/creator | Gordon, Stewart, 1930- |
| Format | Book |
| Publication Info | New York : Schirmer Books ; London : Prentice Hall International, ©1996. |
| Description | viii, 566 pages : music ; 24 cm |
| Subjects |
| Contents | Stringed keyboard instruments -- Keyboard music to the end of the Renaissance -- Baroque keyboard music in Italy, France, England, and Germany -- George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach -- The galant style -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- The turn of the nineteenth century -- Franz Peter Schubert -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Robert (Alexander) Schumann -- Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin -- Franz Liszt -- Johannes Brahms -- Other composers of the nineteenth century -- (Achille-) Claude Debussy -- French keyboard music of the early twentieth century -- Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin keyboard music in the twentieth century -- Russian Keyboard music -- Other European composers of the twentieth century -- Keyboard music of nontonal composers in Europe -- The United States and Canada in the twentieth century. |
| Abstract | This book presents a comprehensive and easily accessible history of literature for all stringed keyboard instruments, focusing on mainstream works in the current concert repertoire for pianists. It describes and catalogs the literature, examining the basic structure and the key features of each major composition, and outlines important schools of composition, trends in the history of keyboard music, and influences on composers and individual compositions. Commentary on every major composers is provided, with special attention to the piano repertoire of the late eighteenth centuries, and published sources for the works discussed. The book begins with a survey of the development of keyboard instruments, moving on to a survey of European and English keyboard music to the end of the Renaissance. Individual chapters discuss the Baroque in general, and the compositions of Handel and J.S. Bach in particular. A chapter is devoted to the galant style, followed by chapters on Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, and Schubert that feature individual discussions of all the piano sonatas written by each of these composers. For the later nineteenth century, chapters are devoted to Mendelssohn, Schumann, Chopin, Liszt, and Brahms. For the early twentieth century, chapters examine Debussy, other French composers, and the nationalistic schools of Spain, Russia, and other European countries. Two final chapters survey the keyboard literature of the later twentieth century in Europe and North America. The book includes an extensive bibliography. |
| Local note | Little-310201--305131017609- |
| General note | Errata slip inserted. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 533-550) and index. |
| LCCN | 95031762 |
| ISBN | 0028709659 (hardcover : alk. paper) |