A history of the harpsichord

Author(s)

• Kottick, Edward L.

Bibliographic Information

A history of the harpsichord

Edward L. Kottick

Indiana University Press, c2003

• alk. paper

Note

Includes bibliographical references (p. 523-540) and index

Contents of Works

• The fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. From psaltery and monochord to harpsichord and virginal
• The sixteenth century. The emergence of the northern harpsichord ; Antwerp harpsichord building between Karest and Ruckers ; Early Italian style
• The seventeenth century. The Ruckers-Couchet dynasty ; Later Italian style ; Seventeenth-century international style ; France ; Germany and Austria ; England
• 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
• The nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The harpsichord hibernates ; The harpsichord revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II ; The modern harpsichord."

• NCID: BA62976130
• ISBN:
  • 0253341663
• LCCN: 2002006385
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Bloomington, Ind.
• Pages/Volumes: xvi, 557 p., [16] p. of plates
• Size: 26 cm
• Attached Material: 1 sound disc
• Classification:
  • LCC : ML650
  • DC21 : 786.4/19/09
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Harpsichord -- History