Keyboard music

by Denis Matthews

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0715356127
• ISBN13: 9780715356128
• Release Date: January 1972
• Publisher: David & Charles
• Length: 386 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.

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Keyboard Music

This book focuses on music for the solo keyboard and is a useful resource for studying the history of this type of music. Chapter 1 includes a lengthy bibliography of "Modern Collected Editions of Early Keyboard Music Mentioned in the Foregoing Chapter." Chapter 7, on the 20th Century, ends with 1968 and excludes modern genres such as jazz and new age styles. Pianists outside of composers are not discussed. Contents - 1 Early Keyboard Music - Howard Ferguson 2 Bach and Handel - Charles Rosen 3 Hayden, Mozart and Their Contemporaries - Eva Badura-Skoda 4 Beethoven, Schubert, and Brahms - Denis Matthews 5 The Romantic Tradition - John Ogdon 6 The Growth of National Schools - James Gibb 7 The Twentieth Century - Susan Bradshaw