Features
- Cover Type: Paperback with 463 pages
- Published by: Dover Publications June 1, 1972
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 048622855X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0486228556
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Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.5 x 1 inches
- Weighs: 1.5 pounds
Book Description
Practicing musician and professor of music discusses 350 composers and their works for harpsichord and piano. Includes 116 musical examples.
Reader Reviews
Gillespie was professor of Music at the Indiana University. He endeavored to satisfy a wide range of interests. From the clavier literature student to the musical gourmet , he presents the different phases of keyboard development . Beware about the organ music . He prevents the organ music has its own niche and requires a separate volume . Individual chapters and articles will be helpful in quickly locating information about particular composers , even the most unknown and sometimes neglected composers of the different countries and periods . Footnotes and bibliographies will be important for the professional , student , performer or simply casual investigator . As result of the final reading you will obtain a precise scope about the development of the works for the solo keyboard , traditions , interconnections from the first works of the sixteenth century to the new composers of today. A real must for the music lovers and every person sincerely interested in the evolution of the instrument.
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