Bartolomeo Cristofori And The Invention Of The Piano
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Bartolomeo Cristofori And The Invention Of The Piano
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Author : Stewart Pollens
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2017-08-03
Bartolomeo Cristofori And The Invention Of The Piano written by Stewart Pollens and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-08-03 with Music categories.
The first comprehensive study of Bartolomeo Cristofori's working life, featuring detailed technical documentation about his instruments.
The Music Of Life
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Author : Elizabeth Rusch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-04-18
The Music Of Life written by Elizabeth Rusch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Award-winning biographer Elizabeth Rusch and two-time Caldecott Honor–recipient Marjorie Priceman team up to tell the inspiring story of the invention of the world’s most popular instrument: the piano. Bartolomeo Cristofori coaxes just the right sounds from the musical instruments he makes. Some of his keyboards can play piano, light and soft; others make forte notes ring out, strong and loud, but Cristofori longs to create an instrument that can be played both soft and loud. His talent has caught the attention of Prince Ferdinando de Medici, who wants his court to become the musical center of Italy. The prince brings Cristofori to the noisy city of Florence, where the goldsmiths’ tiny hammers whisper tink, tink and the blacksmiths’ big sledgehammers shout BANG, BANG! Could hammers be the key to the new instrument? At last Cristofori gets his creation just right. It is called the pianoforte, for what it can do. All around the world, people young and old can play the most intricate music of their lives, thanks to Bartolomeo Cristofori’s marvelous creation: the piano.
The Music Of Life
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Author : Elizabeth Rusch
language : en
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
Release Date : 2017-04-18
The Music Of Life written by Elizabeth Rusch and has been published by Simon and Schuster this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-18 with Juvenile Nonfiction categories.
Presents the life of the inventor of the piano, explaining why, how, and when he created the musical instrument.
The Early Pianoforte
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Author : Stewart Pollens
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 1995-09-14
The Early Pianoforte written by Stewart Pollens and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1995-09-14 with Music categories.
This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano.
Giraffes Black Dragons And Other Pianos
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Author : Edwin Marshall Good
language : en
Publisher: Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Release Date : 2001
Giraffes Black Dragons And Other Pianos written by Edwin Marshall Good and has been published by Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Music categories.
Incorporating the results of recent research, this is a new edition of a book that received the American Musicological Society’s Otto Kinkeldey Award for the best musicological book in English published in 1982-83.
A Natural History Of The Piano
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Author : Stuart Isacoff
language : en
Publisher: Vintage
Release Date : 2011-11-15
A Natural History Of The Piano written by Stuart Isacoff and has been published by Vintage this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-15 with Music categories.
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own. With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners. He illuminates the groundbreaking music of Mozart, Beethoven, Liszt, Schumann, and Debussy. He analyzes the breathtaking techniques of Glenn Gould, Oscar Peterson, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Arthur Rubinstein, and Van Cliburn, and he gives musicians including Alfred Brendel, Murray Perahia, Menahem Pressler, and Vladimir Horowitz the opportunity to discuss their approaches. Isacoff delineates how classical music and jazz influenced each other as the uniquely American art form progressed from ragtime, novelty, stride, boogie, bebop, and beyond, through Scott Joplin, Fats Waller, Duke Ellington, Bill Evans, Thelonious Monk, Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, Cecil Taylor, and Bill Charlap. A Natural History of the Piano distills a lifetime of research and passion into one brilliant narrative. We witness Mozart unveiling his monumental concertos in Vienna’s coffeehouses, using a special piano with one keyboard for the hands and another for the feet; European virtuoso Henri Herz entertaining rowdy miners during the California gold rush; Beethoven at his piano, conjuring healing angels to console a grieving mother who had lost her child; Liszt fainting in the arms of a page turner to spark an entire hall into hysterics. Here is the instrument in all its complexity and beauty. We learn of the incredible craftsmanship of a modern Steinway, the peculiarity of specialty pianos built for the Victorian household, the continuing innovation in keyboards including electronic ones. And most of all, we hear the music of the masters, from centuries ago and in our own age, brilliantly evoked and as marvelous as its most recent performance. With this wide-ranging volume, Isacoff gives us a must-have for music lovers, pianists, and the armchair musician.
The Eighteenth Century Fortepiano Grand And Its Patrons
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Author : Eva Badura-Skoda
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2017-11-20
The Eighteenth Century Fortepiano Grand And Its Patrons written by Eva Badura-Skoda and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-11-20 with Music categories.
“Badura-Skoda addresses the place of the piano in the eighteenth century from the perspective of a scholar and performer” (Eighteenth-Century Music). In the late seventeenth century, Italian musician and inventor Bartolomeo Cristofori developed a new musical instrument—his cembalo che fa il piano e forte, which allowed keyboard players flexible dynamic gradation. This innovation, which came to be known as the hammer-harpsichord or fortepiano grand, was slow to catch on in musical circles. However, as renowned piano historian Eva Badura-Skoda demonstrates, the instrument inspired new keyboard techniques and performance practices and was eagerly adopted by virtuosos of the age, including Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Clementi, Haydn, Mozart, and Beethoven. Presenting a rich array of archival evidence, Badura-Skoda traces the construction and use of the fortepiano grand across the musical cultures of eighteenth-century Europe, providing a valuable resource for music historians, organologists, and performers. “Badura-Skoda has written a remarkable volume, the result of a lifetime of scholarly research and investigation. . . . Essential.” —Choice
Physics Of The Piano
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Author : Nicholas J. Giordano
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2016-10-27
Physics Of The Piano written by Nicholas J. Giordano and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-10-27 with Science categories.
Why does a piano sound like a piano? A similar question can be asked of virtually all musical instruments. A particular note-such as middle C-can be produced by a piano, a violin, a clarinet, and many other instruments, yet it is easy for even a musically untrained listener to distinguish between these different instruments. A central quest in the study of musical instruments is to understand why the sound of the "same" note depends greatly on the instrument, and to elucidate which aspects of an instrument are most critical in producing the musical tones characteristic of the instrument. The primary goal of this book is to investigate these questions for the piano. The explanations in this book use a minimum of mathematics, and are intended for anyone who is interested in music and musical instruments. At the same time, there are many insights relating physics and the piano that will likely be interesting and perhaps surprising for many physicists.
The Free Fantasia And The Musical Picturesque
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Author : Annette Richards
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2001-01-04
The Free Fantasia And The Musical Picturesque written by Annette Richards and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-01-04 with Art categories.
This book explores the 'picturesque' in the music of Bach, Haydn, and Beethoven.
The Violin A Social History Of The World S Most Versatile Instrument
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Author : David Schoenbaum
language : en
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Release Date : 2012-12-10
The Violin A Social History Of The World S Most Versatile Instrument written by David Schoenbaum and has been published by W. W. Norton & Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-10 with Music categories.
The life, times, and travels of a remarkable instrument and the people who have made, sold, played, and cherished it. A 16-ounce package of polished wood, strings, and air, the violin is perhaps the most affordable, portable, and adaptable instrument ever created. As congenial to reels, ragas, Delta blues, and indie rock as it is to solo Bach and late Beethoven, it has been played standing or sitting, alone or in groups, in bars, churches, concert halls, lumber camps, even concentration camps, by pros and amateurs, adults and children, men and women, at virtually any latitude on any continent. Despite dogged attempts by musicologists worldwide to find its source, the violin’s origins remain maddeningly elusive. The instrument surfaced from nowhere in particular, in a world that Columbus had only recently left behind and Shakespeare had yet to put on paper. By the end of the violin’s first century, people were just discovering its possibilities. But it was already the instrument of choice for some of the greatest music ever composed by the end of its second. By the dawn of its fifth, it was established on five continents as an icon of globalization, modernization, and social mobility, an A-list trophy, and a potential capital gain. In The Violin, David Schoenbaum has combined the stories of its makers, dealers, and players into a global history of the past five centuries. From the earliest days, when violin makers acquired their craft from box makers, to Stradivari and the Golden Age of Cremona; Vuillaume and the Hills, who turned it into a global collectible; and incomparable performers from Paganini and Joachim to Heifetz and Oistrakh, Schoenbaum lays out the business, politics, and art of the world’s most versatile instrument.