Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invizibilized force driving classical music. This hybrid study, combining text and multimedia, explores its history, evolution, and transformation into a recognized academic discipline through archi...Lasīt vairāk
Performer and researcher Peter OHagan studies the musical style of Pierre Boulez during his final creative period, by means of a detailed consideration of the ensemble work sur Incises, which stands at the heart of Boulezs later output....Lasīt vairāk
Originally published in 1924, and authored by a renowned pianist and musicologist, this book is a comprehensive study of the history and evolution of pianoforte music from its origins in the early 18th century to modern times. The book begins with a...Lasīt vairāk
Edward MacDowells European Piano Music is a critical study of the piano music that MacDowell composed during his European sojourn (1876-1888), steeped in reception history and with a special emphasis of programmaticism....Lasīt vairāk
Harmonic Development and Contrapuntal Techniques for the Jazz Pianist serves as a guide for harmonic expansion and development for jazz piano, offering pianists both a rationale and methods to improve contrapuntal hand techniques....Lasīt vairāk
Harmony at the Piano adapts the traditional study of keyboard harmony to the practical needs of modern piano students, using innovative exercises to help students practice their repertoire more deliberately, consciously, and creatively....Lasīt vairāk
Authorship is a pertinent issue for historical musicology and musicians more widely.The discovery of new sources and methodologies has also opened up opportunities for reassessing specific authorship problems. This book aims to build on what has alr...Lasīt vairāk
By the early twentieth century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices.This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player pia...Lasīt vairāk
Keyboard Skills for the Practical Musician provides undergraduate music majors in class piano courses with the techniques and fundamentals they need to flourish into independent, versatile musicians who play with confidence and sensitivity....Lasīt vairāk
English keyboard music reached an unsurpassed level of sophistication in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries as organists treated it as seriously as vocal music. This book draws together important research on the music, its sources an...Lasīt vairāk
Critical Perspectives on Michael Finnissy covers a wide range of topics pertinent to the critical reception and analysis of Finnissys practices, including: the connection between his works and cinema; performance practices; political contexts and pr...Lasīt vairāk
Studies in English Organ Music is a collection of essays by expert authors that examines key areas of the repertoire in the history of organ music in England. The essays on repertoire are placed alongside supporting studies in organ building and lit...Lasīt vairāk
Muzio Clementi (1752-1832) achieved notable success in a diversity of activities that centred mainly on the piano. This book explores Clementis multivalent contribution to piano performance, pedagogy, composition and manufacture in relation to Briti...Lasīt vairāk
The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements. The present volume is a collection reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The vol...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines microtonality through the tuning theories of Erv Wilson. It addresses the breadth and complexity of his work by using microtonal keyboard designs to investigate his tuning concepts and their practical applications. It considers ma...Lasīt vairāk
This volume considers the influences and development of the English organ sonata tradition that began in the 1850s with compositions by W. T. Best and William Spark. Begins by examining the legacy of the keyboard sonata in Britain, Quinn explores th...Lasīt vairāk
Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation, and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language....Lasīt vairāk
A technical volume on the construction of organs. Comprises an alphabetically arranged detailing of the various components of organs, their characteristics and uses. Also includes a study of organ building....Lasīt vairāk
