Early Keyboard Instruments A Practical Guide [Paperback]

Discusses performance issues on keyboard instruments relevant to music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries.This title in the Historical Performance of Music series discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.This title in the Historical Performance of Music series discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.Early Keyboard Instruments discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. It brings together a range of topics that have come to the fore in recent decades and forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for the student performer or amateur, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano.1. Stylistic awareness and keyboard music; 2. Repertory, performance and notation; 3. The instruments; 4. Use of instruments and technique; 5. Non-notated and notated issues; 6. Case studies; 7. Continuo realisation. Overall Rowland gives valuable practical information. CHOICE Nov 2001