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Piano Roles A New History Of The Piano
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Author : James Parakilas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Piano Roles A New History Of The Piano written by James Parakilas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.
Piano Roles
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Author : James Parakilas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Piano Roles written by James Parakilas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.
This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past 300 years. This new edition includes 47 color photos and 14 illustrations.
Piano Roles
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Author : James Parakilas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2006-04-01
Piano Roles written by James Parakilas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-04-01 with categories.
This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past 300 years. It deals with the piano's place in classical & popular music cultures, its meaning in different eras, its acceptance in all parts of the world, & images it has inspired in literature, art, & the movies. Winner of the 2000 Professional/Scholarly Pub. Div. of the Assoc. of Amer. Publishers Book Award in the Arts category. Author James Parakilas is a prof. of performing arts & a performing pianist. Replete with artworks, photos, history, anecdotes & reminiscences, this new paperback edition includes 47 halftone illustrations. A fascinating cultural history.Ó
Piano Roles
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Author : James Parakilas
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1999-01-01
Piano Roles written by James Parakilas and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-01-01 with Music categories.
The place of the piano in classical and popular musical cultures and its changing roles over the past three centuries are examined by eminent authorities. Everything about the piano is here: its invention, innovations in design, importance of piano lessons in girls' lives, images formed around the piano, and more. 153 b&w, 65 color illustrations.
The First Fleet Piano Volume One
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Author : Geoffrey Lancaster
language : en
Publisher: ANU Press
Release Date : 2015-11-03
The First Fleet Piano Volume One written by Geoffrey Lancaster and has been published by ANU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-11-03 with Music categories.
During the late eighteenth century, a musical–cultural phenomenon swept the globe. The English square piano—invented in the early 1760s by an entrepreneurial German guitar maker in London—not only became an indispensable part of social life, but also inspired the creation of an expressive and scintillating repertoire. Square pianos reinforced music as life’s counterpoint, and were played by royalty, by musicians of the highest calibre and by aspiring amateurs alike. On Sunday, 13 May 1787, a square piano departed from Portsmouth on board the Sirius, the flagship of the First Fleet, bound for Botany Bay. Who made the First Fleet piano, and when was it made? Who owned it? Who played it, and who listened? What music did the instrument sound out, and within what contexts was its voice heard? What became of the First Fleet piano after its arrival on antipodean soil, and who played a part in the instrument’s subsequent history? Two extant instruments contend for the title ‘First Fleet piano’; which of these made the epic journey to Botany Bay in 1787–88? The First Fleet Piano: A Musician’s View answers these questions, and provides tantalising glimpses of social and cultural life both in Georgian England and in the early colony at Sydney Cove. The First Fleet piano is placed within the musical and social contexts for which it was created, and narratives of the individuals whose lives have been touched by the instrument are woven together into an account of the First Fleet piano’s conjunction with the forces of history. View ‘The First Fleet Piano: Volume Two Appendices’. Note: Volume 1 and 2 are sold as a set ($180 for both) and cannot be purchased separately.
The Player Piano And The Edwardian Novel
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Author : Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Player Piano And The Edwardian Novel written by Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Literary Criticism categories.
In her study of music-making in the Edwardian novel, Cecilia Björkén-Nyberg argues that the invention and development of the player piano had a significant effect on the perception, performance and appreciation of music during the period. In contrast to existing devices for producing music mechanically such as the phonograph and gramophone, the player piano granted its operator freedom of individual expression by permitting the performer to modify the tempo. Because the traditional piano was the undisputed altar of domestic and highly gendered music-making, Björkén-Nyberg suggests, the potential for intervention by the mechanical piano's operator had a subversive effect on traditional notions about the status of the musical work itself and about the people who were variously defined by their relationship to it. She examines works by Dorothy Richardson, E.M. Forster, Henry Handel Richardson, Max Beerbohm and Compton Mackenzie, among others, contending that Edwardian fiction with music as a subject undermined the prevalent antithesis, expressed in contemporary music literature, between a nineteenth-century conception of music as a means of transcendence and the increasing mechanisation of music as represented by the player piano. Her timely survey of the player piano in the context of Edwardian commercial and technical discourse draws on a rich array of archival materials to shed new light on the historically conditioned activity of music-making in early twentieth-century fiction.
Piano Roles
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Author : James Parakilas
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2002
Piano Roles written by James Parakilas and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Music categories.
This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past 300 years. This new edition includes 47 color photos and 14 illustrations.
Piano Makers In Russia In The Nineteenth Century
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Author : Anne Swartz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2014-08-01
Piano Makers In Russia In The Nineteenth Century written by Anne Swartz and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-08-01 with Music categories.
Piano Makers in Russia in the Nineteenth Century is a richly detailed thematic study of the history of the piano in Russian society from its beginnings with the European artisans who settled in St. Petersburg in the early decades of the century through the transition to Russian-owned family firms. The piano played a defining role in the shaping of Russia’s musical culture in the nineteenth century, as artisans and entrepreneurs provided the foundation for the great tradition of the Russian virtuoso in the performance and the composition of piano music. It also helped bring about a transformative change in the material culture as the piano expanded its reach from the court and the nobility to include music enthusiasts from all social classes and Russian families in their homes. This historical study brings to light the impact of neglected piano artisans in nineteenth-century Russia, and presents a fresh view of the social and economic ties between the state and the piano-manufacturing artisans in an era largely defined by handcrafting and entrepreneurship. It contributes significantly to current issues surrounding the role of the piano and the entrepreneur-artisans in the urban centers of imperial Russia and represents an expansion of what is currently known about the piano builders who established workshops in Russia beginning in the late 1830s and 1840s, well before the heyday of the virtuoso in that country. Rare documents, including letters, memoirs, gazettes, exhibition catalogs, music journals, and administrative reports, form the nucleus of this book and provide fascinating insights about state and private patronage and the class/economic issues related to the affordability and prestige of the piano in Russia. Issues surrounding the transformation of the music industry in Russia, the role of women as patrons and performers, the exportation of instruments to the Russian Far East, and the complex system of tariffs and trade protection that benefited domestic piano manufacturers provide this book’s thematic links. Conclusions indicate that while favorable tariff laws and state-imposed economic policies benefited the family-owned firms in the nineteenth century, they remained in effect in the decades after the nationalization of the piano industry in 1917.
The Player Piano And Musical Labor
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Author : Allison Rebecca Wente
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-06-14
The Player Piano And Musical Labor written by Allison Rebecca Wente and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-14 with Music categories.
By the early 20th century the machine aesthetic was a well-established and dominant interest that fundamentally transformed musical performance and listening practices. While numerous scholars have examined this aesthetic in art and literature, musical compositions representing industrialized labor practices and the role of the machine in music remain largely unexplored. Moreover, in recounting the history of machines in musical recording and reproduction, scholars often tend to emphasize the phonograph, rather than player piano, despite the latter’s prominence within the newly established musical marketplace. Machines and their music influenced multiple areas of early 20th-century musical culture, from film scores to popular music and even the concert hall. But the opposite was also true: industrialized labor practices changed the musical marketplace and musical culture as a whole. As consumers accepted mechanical replacements for what previously required an active human laborer, ghostly, mechanical performers labored tirelessly in parlors, businesses, and even concert halls. Although the player piano failed to maintain a stronghold in the recorded music marketplace after 1930, the widespread acceptance of recording technologies as media for storing and enjoying music indicates a much more fundamental societal shift. This book explores that shift, examining the rise and fall of the player piano in early 20th-century society and connecting it to the digital technologies of today.
A Portrait Of Contemporary U S Teachers Of Piano
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Author : Barbara Ann Stolz
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2019-11-22
A Portrait Of Contemporary U S Teachers Of Piano written by Barbara Ann Stolz and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-11-22 with Music categories.
Using factors extrapolated from historical and social science literatures to frame the observations of twenty current U.S. piano teachers, A Portrait of Contemporary U.S. Teachers of Piano: A Musical Journey explores the contemporary U.S. piano teacher through a social science lens. Drawing on many interviewees' experiences with teaching piano, Barbara Stolz argues that each teacher is an artist and a pedagogue, teaching approaches are eclectic and pragmatic, and knowing each student is paramount.