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Five Centuries of Keyboard Music : An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and Piano
Five Centuries of Keyboard Music An Historical Survey of Music for Harpsichord and Piano Author:John Gillespie Most listeners can readily distinguish between the works of such keyboard giants as Bach, Beethoven and Liszt and between various national schools, but when it comes to defining what the differences are, relating the various interconnections, discovering information on the hundreds of other keyboard composers, and actually finding playing editio... more »ns, the task becomes much greater. To aid the performer, the listener, and the student in all these important aspects, John Gillespie, practicing pianist and harpsichordist and Professor of Music at the University of California, has prepared this, the first work in English to comprehensively survey the development of solo keyboard works.
Emphasis is given to the masters whose works continue to be heard most often today -- Bach, Handel, Mozart, Haydn, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, Chopin, Debussy, Ravel, and others. Major consideration, too, is given to composers who were influential in developing national styles. All of the Western countries -- from Germany, Italy, France, and England to Norway, Russia, the United States, South America, and Canada -- are included. Finally there are discussions of now little-known composers who were important in their times. Altogether over 350 composers are discussed in Gillespie's survey which also includes nearly 120 musical illustrations and a 195-item glossary of musical terms.« less