| Description |
x, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index. |
| Contents |
1700 to 1770s : the need for the piano / James Parakilas -- Designing, making, and selling pianos / Edwin M. Good, Cynthia Adams Hoover -- The player piano / Michael Chanan -- 1770s to 1820s : the piano revolution in the age of revolutions / James Parakilas, Gretchen A. Wheelock -- The piano lesson / E. Douglas Bomberger ... [et al.] -- The metronome / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Le tabouret (the piano stool) / Marina Tsvetaeva -- 1820s to 1870s : the piano calls the tune / Charlotte N. Eyerman, James Parakilas -- The piano tuner / James Parakilas -- The image of the composer at the piano / James Parakilas -- The concert and the virtuoso / Richard Leppert, Stephen Zank -- 1870s to 1920s : the world's the limit / Atsuko Hirai, James Parakilas -- Preview : Silent movies with piano / Michael Chanan -- Hollywood's embattled icon / Ivan Raykoff -- 1920s to 2000 : new voices from the old impersonator / Michael Chanan, James Parakilas, Mark Tucker -- Afterword : Making the piano historical / James Parakilas. |
| Subject |
Piano -- History.
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Music -- Social aspects.
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| ISBN |
0300080557 cloth alkaline paper |
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9780300080551 cloth alkaline paper |
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0300083513 paperback alkaline paper |
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9780300083514 paperback alkaline paper |
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