A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments

A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
ISBN-10
1108386482
ISBN-13
9781108386487
Category
Music
Language
English
Published
2022-03-31
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Stewart Pollens

Description

This book explores the history of keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to the development of the modern piano. It reveals the principles of their design and describes structural and mechanical developments through the medieval and renaissance periods and eighteenth- and nineteenth-centuries, as well as the early music revival. Stewart Pollens identifies and describes the types of keyboard instruments played by major composers and virtuosi through the ages and provides the reader with detailed instructions on their regulating, stringing, tuning and voicing drawn from historical sources.

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