A history of the harpsichord
By: Edward L. Kottick
Edition: Reprinted edition.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
Number of pages: 557
ISBN-13: 9780253023476
Copyright date: 2003
Subjects: Harpsichord; History
Notes: "Glossary": pages 471-473.

On endpapers: labelled exploded view diagrams of harpsichords.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 523-540) and index.
Table of contents: title: The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From psaltery and monochord to harpsichord and virginal; title: The sixteenth century. The emergence of the northern harpsichord ; Antwerp harpsichord building between Karest and Ruckers ; Early Italian style; title: The seventeenth century. The Ruckers-Couchet dynasty ; Later Italian style ; Seventeenth-century international style ; France ; Germany and Austria ; England; title: The eighteenth century. The decline of the Italian harpsichord ; The Iberian Peninsula ; Harpsichord building in France up to the revolution ; The Low Countries in the post-Ruckers era ; Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, and Switzerland ; Great Britain and America; title: The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The harpsichord hibernates ; The harpsichord revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II ; The modern harpsichord ; Into the future.