The clavichord
By: Bernard Brauchli.
Series: Cambridge musical texts and monographs
Publisher: New York; Cambridge University Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 384
Subjects: Clavichord
Description: The clavichord, forerunner of the piano, was one of the most important instruments in Western keyboard history until the first decades of the nineteenth century. Bernard Brauchli's comprehensive history fills a major gap in the literature on this instrument. Beginning with the earliest-known references, he traces the clavichord's evolution up to the mid-nineteenth century, ending with a study of performance technique. The clavichord's structural developments (traced largely through an analysis of extant instruments), literary documentation (much of it presented here for the first time in English), treatises and iconographical sources are presented in chronological order. What emerges from this study of the various sources is an overview of the essential role this instrument played both socially and musically for more than four centuries, restoring the clavichord to the position it justly deserves in history [Publisher description]
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.