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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      03 April 2022
      21 April 2022
      ISBN:
      9781108379915
      9781108421997
      9781108434454
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108379915
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.4kg, 592 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (254 x 178 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      1.094kg, 593 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Music: General Interest, Music Performance
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    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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