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Company of Pianos

Richard Burnett

出版	Finchcocks Press, 2004
主題	Music / GeneralMusic / History & CriticismMusic / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard
ISBN	19039423579781903942352
URL	http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JHEIAQAAMAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api

註釋

"Richard Burnett traces the development, and explores the different attributes of the piano by drawing upon the instruments from his internationally known Finchcocks Collection as the inspiration and navigational means for his story. Sixty-one of these instruments, including organs, harpsichords, clavichords and a wide range of historical pianos, feature in what amounts to a ground-breaking social history of the instrument." "Interwoven with the biographies of the pianos are the histories of the various manufacturing firms and the remarkable lives of some of the builders and musicians associated with them, all set against the vividly depicted social backdrop of the periods under review." "Early instruments have considerable importance for the study of interpretation of music of the past. In the second part of the book, therefore, the author looks at how the development of the instruments has influenced the output of the classical composers - Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Weber and others. Again, the fast-flowing anecdotal style of the writing means that this too will be of interest and entertainment to the general reader, as well as to those who already have some knowledge of the subject." "The book concludes with a comprehensive glossary of technical terms and a keyboard chronology compiled by William Dow, curator of the Collection. There is also a CD giving the reader the opportunity to hear the voices of thirty-three of the Finchcocks instruments, which are played by Richard Burnett and Steven Devine, Assistant Curator of the Collection."--Jacket.