Five Centuries of Keyboard Music: An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and Piano

Most listeners can readily distinguish between the works of such keyboard giants as Bach, Beethoven and Liszt and between various national schools, but when it comes to defining what the differences are, relating the various interconnections, discovering information on the hundreds of other keyboard composers, and actually finding playing editions, the task becomes much greater. To aid the performer, the listener, and the student in all these important aspects, John Gillespie, practicing pianist and harpsichordist and Professor of Music at the University of Calfornia, has prepared this, the first work in English to comprehensively survey the development of solo keyboard works.

CONTENIDO:

Preface

- PART I
Stringed Keyboard Instruments: Their Origins and Development
Early Keyboard Music

- PART II
Harpsichord Music: Its Forms and Characteristics
English Keyboard Music Through Purcell
Italian Cembalo Music
The French Clavecinists
Keyboard Music in Belgium and Holland
Keyboard Music in Spainj and Portugal in the Eighteenth Century
Keyboard Music in Germany and Austria in the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries
Bach and Haendel

- PART III
Eighteenth-Century Classicism
The Sons of BAch and Their Contemporaries
Haydn and Mozart
Beethoven

- PART IV
Romanticism
The Romantic Composers: Weber, Schubert, Mendelssohn and Schumann
The Romantic Composers: Chopin
The Romantic Composers: Liszt
Technique and Technicians
Brahms and the Late Nineteenth Century in Germany
The Slavic Countries in the Romantic Era
The North Countries
French Piano Music in the Nineteenth Century
Early American Piano Music
The Golden Age of Spanish Piano Music

- PART V
Impressionism
Debussy and Ravel
The Twentieth Century
Twentieth-Century Keyboard Music: Germany, Austria, Italy and the Slavic Countries
Twentieth-Century Keyboard Music: France, Hungary, Holland, Spain, and England
Contemporary Piano Music in the Americas: Canada
Contemporary Piano Music in the Americas: Latin America
Contemporary Piano Music in the Americas: The United States

Glossary
General Bibliography
List of Music Publishers
Index