Harpsichords and Clavichords - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Harpsichords and Clavichords write by Cynthia A. Hoover. This book was released on 2019-12-10. Harpsichords and Clavichords available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The harpsichord and the clavichord are the two most important types of stringed keyboard instruments used from the 15th through the 18th centuries. This booklet describes a few of the restored Smithsonian harpsichords and clavichords that are occasionally on exhibit in the Hall of Musical Instruments.
The Harpsichord and Clavichord
The Harpsichord and Clavichord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Harpsichord and Clavichord write by Igor Kipnis. This book was released on 2013-04-15. The Harpsichord and Clavichord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The Harpsichord and Clavichord, An Encyclopedia includes articles on this family of instruments, including famous players, composers, instruments builders, the construction of the instruments, and related terminology. It is the first complete reference on this important family of keyboard instruments. The contributors include major scholars of music and musical instrument history from around the world. It completes the three-volume Encyclopedia of Keyboard Instruments.
A History of the Harpsichord
A History of the Harpsichord - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A History of the Harpsichord write by Edward L. Kottick. This book was released on 2003. A History of the Harpsichord available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over seven centuries.Based on painstaking research, the book considers the place of the instrument in society and vividly describes the market forces that brought about changes in its form, decoration, and cultural importance. An accompanying CDincludes performances on several of the historical instruments described and illustrated in the volume, including a 1580 spinett virginal by Martin van der Biest and instruments built by Ruckers and Pleyel. The volume devotes attention to American harpsichord design as well as to present and future uses of the instrument.Also of interestThe History of the PianoforteA Documentary in SoundEva Badura-Skoda0-253-33582-5 HB £37.95
The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook
The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook write by Thomas Donahue. This book was released on 2015-06-11. The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The harpsichord was the standard keyboard instrument for three centuries before the invention of the piano. It enjoyed a revival in the second half of the twentieth century, but because of the interruption in its history as a more regularly used instrument, many details about its construction are lacking. In The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook, Thomas Donahue integrates available historical evidence and modern physical principles—from both musicological and scientific literature—to provide practical quantitative information about the stringing of this instrument. The Harpsichord Stringing Handbook covers the composition and properties of iron and brass wire, the interrelationship of frequency to string length, safety factors involved with stringing, the scaling of string lengths, the calculation of diameters, and the determination of the transition from iron to brass in mixed-strung instruments. Supplemental topics include the elasticity and plasticity of wire, inharmonicity, tension and stress, and the interpolation of string lengths. Additional material includes data on selected historical harpsichords, absolute diameters of historical gauge numbering systems, a generated list of tensile strength values for historical wire, and sizes and tensile strengths of currently available wire. This book offers specific guidance for instrument makers, restorers, curators, technicians, musicians, kit builders, wire manufacturers, and acousticians, filling in critical details that historical treatises and surviving instruments may not clearly address.
Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840
Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840 write by Donald Howard Boalch. This book was released on 1995. Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord 1440-1840 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The third edition of Donald H. Boalch's Makers of the Harpsichord and Clavichord, 1440-1840 is a complete revision of the second edition published in 1974. The volume is now divided into two parts. Part I contains biographical details of all known makers, including some 500 not listed previously, and updated entries for more than 400 makers appearing in the second edition. Enlarged (and in some cases extended) descriptions of more than 2,000 surviving instruments by the makers are consigned to Part II, and the whole is complemented by a number of tables, a geographical and chronological conspectus of makers, and a new Index of Technical Terms in seven languages by Dr Andreas H. Roth.
