Since the publication of "The London Pianoforte School" (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for this most popular instrument during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for a time the centre of piano manufacturing, publishing and performance. But none has focused on the piano exclusively within Britain. The eleven chapters in this volume explore major issues surrounding the instrument, its performers and music within an expanded geographical context created by the spread of the instrument and the growth of concert touring. The topics covered include: the piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum during the nineteenth century; the shift from composer-pianists to pianist-interpreters in the first half of the century that triggered crucial changes in piano...

Под заказ:
	OZON.ru - 12076 руб.	Перейти

Рейтинг книги: 4 из 5, 3 голос(-ов).