Piano-playing Revisited

Download or read book Piano-playing Revisited written by David Breitman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Preface -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Music making then and now -- 2. With broad strokes (an overview) -- 3. The early days of piano: Haydn and Mozart -- 4. Beethoven and the evolving piano -- 5. Schubert -- 6. Chopin -- 7. The clavichord -- Epilogue: creativity in the performance of old music -- Appendix: overtone structure of the Steinway and Waler, compared -- Glossary of terms -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index of works -- General index.