Masters of the Keyboard

Willi Apel

Published by Harvard University Press 1947

Masters of the Keyboard

A Brief Survey of Pianoforte Music

Willi Apel

https://doi.org/10.4159/harvard.9780674729407

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About this book

Willi Apel, world-famous musicologist, presents with freshness and vitality a succession of landmarks in the history of keyboard music. From the vast musical literature composed for organ, clavichord, harpsichord, and pianoforte from the Middle Ages to the present day, Apel has selected for reproduction one hundred and forty compositions—all but a few of them individually complete works, or independent sections of major works—which illustrate its entire development. His text forms a continuous commentary on the significance of these musical examples for the development of key-board music as a whole. His history is addressed mainly to the musical amateur, but based as it is on extensive musicological research it includes much material of interest to the student and scholar.

In his opening chapters Apel picks up the threads of the earliest forms of keyboard instruments and music before 1500. In succeeding chapters he surveys sixteenth-century organ and virginal music; the Baroque and Rococo periods; the Classical period; the Romantic school; and, finally, modern piano music.

Apel tells the story of this development in a readable manner, avoiding unnecessary technicalities, but fully and clearly explaining all technical terms used in the text. The distinguishing feature of his book is the inclusion, for the first time in any comparable work, of complete compositions rather than short musical illustrations: most of this valuable materials is not readily accessible to the amateur, nor even to many music students.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
PREFACE Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	vii
CONTENTS Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
1. THE KEYBOARD INSTRUMENTS Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. THE LATE MIDDLE AGES: 1300-1500 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	20
3. THE RENAISSANCE: 1500-1600 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	35
4. THE EARLY BAROQUE PERIOD: 1600-1675 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	77
5. THE LATE BAROQUE PERIOD: 1675-1750 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	108
6. THE ROCOCO PERIOD: 1725-1775 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	156
7. CLASSICISM: 1770-1830 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	184
8. ROMANTICISM: 1830-1900 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	230
9. IMPRESSIONISM AND THE NEW MUSIC: 1900-1940 Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	272
NOTES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	307
SOURCES Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	311
INDEX Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	319

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Language: English
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Copyright year: 1947
Edition: Reprint 2013
Audience: General/trade;
Pages
- Main content: 323
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 140
- Other: 140 music illustrations
Keywords: Piano music -- History and criticism; Organ music -- History and criticism; Componisten

eBook

Published: October 1, 2013
ISBN: 9780674729407

Hardcover

Published: December 11, 2013
ISBN: 9780674729384