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9780300093063

Piano Roles : Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano

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  • ISBN13:

    9780300093063

  • ISBN10:

    0300093063

  • Format: Trade Paper
  • Copyright: 2002-03-11
  • Publisher: Yale University Press

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Summary

This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past three hundred years. It deals with the piano's place in classical and popular music cultures, its meaning in different eras, its acceptance in all parts of the world, and images it has inspired in literature, art, and the movies. This new paperback edition includes forty-seven color and fourteen halftone illustrations.

Author Biography

James Parakilas is the James L. Moody, Jr., Family Professor of Performing Arts and chair of the music department at Bates College. He is also a performing pianist

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii
James Parakilas
Introduction 1(6)
James Parakilas
1700 to 1770s: The Need for the Piano
7(19)
James Parakilas
Designing, Making, and Selling Pianos
26(38)
Edwin M. Good
Cynthia Adams Hoover
Michael Chanan
1770s to 1820s: The Piano Revolution in the Age of Revolutions
64(46)
James Parakilas
Gretchen A. Wheelock
The Piano Lesson
110(40)
James Parakilas
E. Douglas Bomberger
Martha Dennis Burns
Mark Tucker
Judith Tick
Marina Tsvetaeva
Jane Costlow
1820s to 1870s: The Piano Calls the Tune
150(34)
James Parakilas
Charlotte N. Eyerman
The Concert and the Virtuoso
184(40)
Stephen Zank
Richard Leppert
1870s to 1920s: The World's the Limit
224(38)
James Parakilas
Atsuko Hirai
Hollywood's Embattled Icon
262(26)
Ivan Raykoff
Michael Chanan
1920s to 2000: New Voices from the Old Impersonator
288(33)
James Parakilas
Mark Tucker
Michael Chanan
Afterword: Making the Piano Historical 321(6)
James Parakilas
Notes 327(36)
Recommended Readings 363(6)
Contributors 369(4)
Index 373

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