Unknown Binding: 28 pages
Publisher: The Friends of St. Cecilia's Hal
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 103 pages
Publisher: Musical Instrument Collection, Music Dept., Haags Gemeentemusuem
Language: English

Book description
A most comprehensive guide to the harpsichord - a must for all harpsichord students! She has done very well at the difficult job of presenting an entire field in a well-balanced, comprehensive fashion.

Paperback: 267 pages
Publisher: Amadeus Press; New Ed edition
Language: English

Hardcover: 592 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press; Har/Com edition
Language: English

Book description
Despite the revival of interest in the harpsichord during the last thirty years, there have been few books describing the general history of the instrument. Such pioneering works as those by Raymond Russell (The Harpsichord and Clavichord [London: Faber and Faber, 1959; New York: W. W. Norton, 1973]), and Frank Hubbard (Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making [Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1974]) have both been superseded in many respects by the recent work of specialist authors. The amount and depth of specialization we have seen during the last thirty years in this area...

[HTML] (Digital): 7 pages
Publisher: Music Library Association, Inc

Unknown Binding Publisher: W. Dowd; Rev edition
Language: English

Unknown Binding Publisher: N.E. Michel
Language: English

Paperback: 164 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Language: English

Paperback: 224 pages
Publisher: Victoria & Albert Museum; New Ed edition
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 100 pages
Publisher: F. Knuf (1989)
Language: English

Publisher: Edition Bochinsky

Unknown Binding: 214 pages
Publisher: De Toorts (1984)
Language: Dutch

Paperback: 313 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Language: English

Book description
Black-and-white photos of some of the early keyboard instruments housed in the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. Captions accompanying photos give approximate age and maker, if known, of the instruments. This book is the predecessor to the full catalog of instruments, by the same author, made available in 1967 by Her Majesty's Stationery Office.

Paperback: 30 pages
Publisher: Her Majesty's Stationery Office (HMSO)
Language: English

Book description
Growing out of the authors' visits to 47 collections in 16 European countries, Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums offers intimate glimpses and useful insights into a great variety of instruments and makes.

Hardcover: 308 pages
Publisher: Indiana University Press (December 7, 2006)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 153 pages
Publisher: The Holland Press (1960)
Language: English

Hardcover: 128 pages
Publisher: The National Trust
Language: English

Paperback Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: English - German

Paperback Publisher: Bold Strummer; Eng&Grmn edition (January 1980)

Unknown Binding: 143 pages
Publisher: Van Nostrand Reinhold Co (1980)
Language: English

Unknown Binding Publisher: Bärenreiter (-Verlag); 2. ed edition (1968)
Language: English

Paperback Publisher: Tuners Supply Inc.

Unknown Binding: 30 pages
Publisher: Werkplaats voor clavecimbelbouw (1974)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 43 pages
Publisher: Smithsonian Institution Press
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 209 pages
Publisher: N.E. Michel (1963)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 42 pages
Publisher: Pageant Press; [1st ed.] edition (1954)
Language: English

Book description
Extracted from the "Harpsichord manual"

Unknown Binding: 23 pages
Publisher: Bar̈enreiter (1960)
Language: English

Publisher: KHM Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien (Wilfried Seipe)

Unknown Binding Publisher: Smithsonian Institution (1960)
Language: English

Book description
Originalmente publicado: Edinburgh University Press, 1971.

Publisher: New York: Dover Publications; London: Constable, 1977.

Book description
Keyboard Music Before 1700 begins with an overview of the development of keyboard music in Europe. Then, individual chapters by noted authorities in the field cover the key composers and repertory before 1700 in England, France, Germany and the Netherlands, Italy, and Spain and Portugal. The book concludes with a chapter on performance practice, which addresses current issues in the interpretation and revival of this music. About the Author. Alexander Silbiger is Professor of Music at Duke University. He lives in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.

Paperback: 400 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 2 edition
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 194 pages
Publisher: Publicaciones de la Sociedad Española de Musicología
Language: Spanish

Unknown Binding Language: English

Book description
The third edition of Donald Boalch's Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840 is a thorough revision of the second edition published in 1974. Part I contains biographical details of all known makers, including some 500 not listed previously, and updated entries for more than 400 makers appearing in the second edition. Enlarged (and in some cases extended) descriptions on more than 2,000 surviving instruments by the makers are consigned to Part II, and the whole is complemented by a number of tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and a new Index of Technological Terms in seven languages by Dr Andreas H Roth.

Hardcover: 824 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; 3 edition (December 1, 1995)
Language: English

Publisher: Anr

Unknown Binding Language: English

Hardcover: 256 pages
Publisher: David & Charles (November 1981)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 167 pages
Publisher: Atheneum
Language: English

Unknown Binding Publisher: American Musical Instrument Society (1979)
Language: English

Book description
The name of Ruckers is as important to early keyboard instruments as Stradivarius is to strings. This book describes in close detail the art and technique of the Ruckers family, who produced harpsichords and virginals throughout a period of over 100 years. Dr O’Brien provides detailed information about the construction and decoration of Ruckers harpsichords and virginals, as well as the numbering, pitch, stringing, and the determination of the original state of their instruments. Like Stradivarius violins, Ruckers instruments were later altered, and the nature and musical significance of these alterations are discussed, as is the influence of the Ruckers style on later building practice. The instruments in their original and altered states are considered in relation to the music of the time and to contemporary performance practice. The text is richly illustrated with diagrams and pictures of original instruments, and with plan-view photographs reproduced at a scale of 1:10. The book also contains a partially illustrated catalogue of authentic and fake instruments, followed by extensive appendices.

Hardcover: 368 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English

Publisher: KHM = Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien

Book description
Rodney Myrvaagnes is a harpsichord maker

Unknown Binding Publisher: Myrvaagnes (1978)
Language: English

Unknown Binding Publisher: W.C. Parsons (1987)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 73 pages
Publisher: Americole (1979)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 36 pages
Publisher: Sunbury Press (1981)
Language: English

Book description
The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Intsruments. About the Author Robert Palmieri is the series editor for the Encylopedia of Keyboard Instruments. He has written widely on the piano and keyboards.

Hardcover: 576 pages
Publisher: Routledge; 1 edition (December 19, 2006)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 208 pages
Publisher: W. W. Norton; 2d ed., rev edition
Language: English

Paperback: 63 pages
Publisher: Alfred Publishing Co., Inc. (1968)
Language: English

Hardcover: 16 pages
Publisher: Oxford University Press (January 1980)
Language: English

Book description
Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperment. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.

Hardcover: 180 pages
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press; Rev edition (October 26, 1992)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 92 pages
Publisher: Jerona Music (1982)
Language: English

Unknown Binding: 92 pages
Publisher: Jerona Music (1982)
Language: English

Publisher: Pendragon Press

Hardcover: 170 pages

Unknown Binding: 14 pages
Language: English

Hardcover: 255 pages
Publisher: October House, Inc.

Unknown Binding: 3 pages
Publisher: Salvatore Landi (1910)
Language: English

Hardcover: 80 pages
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press

Paperback: 54 pages
Publisher: Bold Strummer Ltd (December 1986)

Book description
Here are the traditions of harpsichord making as they might have been taught to young apprentices in five countries where the craft once flourished: Italy, Flanders, France, England, and Germany. The period covered ranges from approximately 1500, when concrete data became available, to 1800, after which the nature of the instrument is no longer of musicological significance. The author's aim is to "give enough information to make it possible for builders of harpsichords to base their work on certain knowledge of the designs and methods of earlier makers; to guide players of the harpsichord in their search for appropriate instruments, dispositions, and registrations in recreating the music of the past; and to serve as a useful body of information for historians and editors of early keyboard music." A chapter each is devoted to the five most important schools of harpsichord making. Over forty plates illustrate the most typical harpsichords of each country. Each set of drawings includes a plan drawn to scale, the interior of the instrument, and interesting details of action and construction. These are supplemented by reproductions of illustrations taken from early sources. The appendixes contain texts of relevant documents, including inventories of the shops of some prominent French makers and contemporary descriptions of instruments. Mr. Hubbard has drawn material from contemporary descriptions of instruments and the mechanical arts such as those found in encyclopedias, technical treatises, books on music theory, and manuals for craftsmen. In addition he has examined hundreds of instruments in European and American collections. His exceptional position as an internationally known harpsichord maker as well as a student of harpsichord history allows him to discuss technical as well as historical matters that would be outside the competence of a musicologist.

Hardcover: 472 pages
Publisher: Harvard University Press (January 1, 1965)
Language: English

Book description
The Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50) was the first French document to discuss keyboard performance practice in any detail. Jean Denis was both a harpsichord builder of renown and the organist of a prominent Parisian church, and he thus qualifies as an authority worthy of careful study. The treatise addresses numerous matters of interest to both scholars and performers, including temperament, ornamentation, fugue, and the use of the organ in liturgical practice. Also included in the treatise are a keyboard prelude designed to reveal errors in tuning and two delightful anecdotes attesting to the power of music. The forthright character of Denis's writing lends a unique and distinctly enjoyable tone to the work. Vincent Panetta's edition of Denis's treatise includes a generously annotated English translation of the original, along with an extensive Introduction that places Denis and his treatise in a historical context.

Paperback: 136 pages
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (April 19, 1987)
Language: English

Unknown Binding Language: English

Unknown Binding: 435 pages
Publisher: Northern Michigan University Press (1977)
Language: English

Book description
This absolutely enormous book is one of the classics on musical temperament; for some reason most such books are out of print and hard to get hold of, and this is no exception. The title has got cut off in the Amazon entry - the full title is: "Tuning: Containing the Perfection of Eighteenth-Century Temperament, the Lost Art of Nineteenth-Century Temperment and the Science of Equal Temperment, Complete with Instructions for Aural and Electronic Tuning." It is a mixture of history of tunings and temperaments, and explicit tuning instructions for various temperaments. An interesting thread running through the book is a detailed argument to the effect that equal temperament was not commonplace until the twentieth century. If you're interested in this book, you might want to get hold of the recordings by Enid Katahn, "Six degrees of Tonality" and "Beethoven in the Temperaments." The former consists of recordings of a number of pieces from different periods of musical history, played on a piano tuned by Edward Foote in temperaments appropriate to the era. Also included are three different takes of the Mozart Fantasie Kv.397 in meantone, "Prelleur" temperament and equal temperament. Other books you might want to check out are Barbour's "Tuning and Temperament" and Dominique Devie's "Le Tempérament Musical."

Hardcover: 821 pages
Publisher: Michigan State Univ Pr (June 1991)
Language: English

Publisher: Edition Bochinsky
Language: German

Unknown Binding: 93 pages
Publisher: Coach House Press (1968)
Language: English