Author: Eric HerzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harpsichord
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
Maintenance and Tuning of Harpsichords
Author: Eric HerzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harpsichord
Languages : en
Pages : 51
Book Description
The Harpsichord Owner's Guide
Author: Edward L. KottickPublisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469610604
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 193
Book Description
Kottick presents technical information in an accessible, but entertaining, way: the forms and styles of harpsichords, advice on purchasing decisions, maintenance techniques (such as voicing, regulating, and changing strings, tongues, plectra, springs, and dampers), aids in troubleshooting common problems, and detailed instructions on tuning and temperament. As builder of some thirty keyboard instruments, Kottick is well qualified to speak on the subject.
A Plain & Easy Introduction to the Harpsichord
Author: Ruth NurmiPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810818866
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Provides basic information on the harpsichord, best-known instrument of baroque music, including physical properties, kinds of harpsichords available, instruction on tuning and common maintenance problems, explanations of technique and fingering, tempo, registration, ensemble playing, and special notational problems.
A Guide to the Harpsichord
Author: Ann BondPublisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9781574670639
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This practical guide treats the mechanics and evolution of the instrument, and offers a survey of its literature. The author provides valuable advice on touch and technique, including articulation and fingering, with a lucid exposition of the issues involved in historical performance practice and a clear explanation of ornamentation. The repertoire of each of the great national schools is presented and discussed, with four representative pieces singled out for detailed analysis. More advanced players will welcome the author's suggestions on continuo playing and the helpful discussion of tuning and temperaments. From advice on acquiring a harpsichord, to wise counsel on how to play it and what music to choose, to suggestions on maintenance and tuning, A Guide to the Harpsichord is an indispensable companion for both beginning and advanced harpsichordists.
Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning
Author: Jean DenisPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521314022
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 140
Book Description
A translation of Jean Denis's Treatise on Harpsichord Tuning (1643/50), with notes and an introduction.
Clavichord Tuning and Maintenance
Author: Peter BavingtonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780955559006
Category : Clavichord
Languages : en
Pages : 216
Book Description
This is a handbook of clavichord tuning and maintenance, containing the theory and history of temperament and schemes for tuning by ear.
The Harpsichord and Clavichord
Author: Igor KipnisPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135949778
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 1323
Book Description
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.
Harpsichord Regulating and Repairing
Author: Frank HubbardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Harpsichord
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
The Equal-beating Temperaments
Author: Owen JorgensenThe Harpsichord Stringing Handbook
Author: Thomas DonahuePublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442243457
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 258
Book Description
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.