Author: Larry SitskyPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll: Pianists
Author: Larry SitskyPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 808
Book Description
The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll: Composers
Author: Larry SitskyPublisher: Greenwood
ISBN:
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 648
Book Description
The Classical Reproducing Piano Roll: Pianists
Author: Publisher:
ISBN: 9780313254963
Category : Player piano
Languages : en
Pages : 1375
Book Description
Ethnic Piano Rolls in the United States
Author: Darius KučinskasPublisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 152756987X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
‘Ethnic’ piano rolls are an important part of a still-neglected musical heritage. Having come to prominence in the first part of the twentieth century, they encapsulate the musical life of several continents and various ethnic communities based in the USA. This volume represents the latest research on these unique and rare cultural artefacts.
A Century of Recorded Music
Author: Timothy DayPublisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 9780300094015
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
Looks at the history of recording technology and its effect on music, including artistic performance, listening habits, and audience participation.
Off the Record
Author: Neal Peres Da CostaPublisher: OUP USA
ISBN: 0195386914
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
In Off the Record, author and pianist Neal Peres Da Costa explores Romantic-era performance practices through a range of early sound recordings--acoustic, piano roll and electric--that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century.
Lost Genius
Author: Kevin BazzanaPublisher: McClelland & Stewart
ISBN: 1551991845
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 394
Book Description
The award-winning author of Wondrous Strange, the critically acclaimed biography of Glenn Gould, explores the bizarre, untold life of another brilliant and eccentric musician. The composer Arnold Schoenberg called him an “utterly extraordinary” pianist of “incredible originality and conviction,” yet today he is all but forgotten. Born in Budapest in 1903, Ervin Nyiregyházi (nyeer-edge-hah-zee) was a remarkable prodigy: at eight he performed at Buckingham Palace, and when he was thirteen a psychologist published a book about him. In his teens, his idiosyncratic, intensely Romantic playing electrified audiences and astounded critics in Europe and America. But his adult career quickly foundered, and he was reduced to penury. In 1928, he settled in Los Angeles, and eventually he withdrew from public life, preferring to spend his time quietly composing. Psychologically, he remained a child, and found the ordinary demands of daily life onerous — he struggled even to dress himself. He drank heavily, was insatiable sexually (he married ten times), and described himself as “a fortissimo bastard,” yet such was his talent and charisma that he numbered among his friends and champions celebrities such as Jack Dempsey, Theodore Dreiser, Bela Lugosi, and Gloria Swanson. Rediscovered in the 1970s, he enjoyed a brief, sensational, and controversial renaissance before slipping back into obscurity. He died in 1987. Lost Genius, the product of ten years’ research, is the first biography of Nyiregyházi, whose story is among the most fascinating — and bizarre — in twentieth-century music.
The Piano
Author: Robert PalmieriPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135949638
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 964
Book Description
The Encyclopedia of the Piano was selected in its first edition as a Choice Outstanding Book and remains a fascinating and unparalleled reference work. The instrument has been at the center of music history with even composers of large symphonic work asserting that they do not write anything without sketching it out first on a piano; its limitations and expressive capacity have done much to shape the contours of the western musical idiom. Within the scope of this user-friendly guide is everything from the acoustics and construction of the piano to the history of the companies that have built them. The piano-lover might also be surprised to find an entry for Thomas Jefferson, and will no doubt read intently the passages about the changing history of the piano's place in the home. Uniformly well-written and authoritative, this guide will channel anyone's love for the instrument, through social, intellectual, art history and beyond into the electronic age.
Player Piano
Author: Arthur A. ReblitzPublisher: Vestal Press
ISBN: 1461664470
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 227
Book Description
A treatise on how player pianos function, and how to get them back into top playing condition if they don't work. For beginners and experienced technicians alike.
The Pop Piano Book
Author: Mark HarrisonPublisher: Hal Leonard Publishing Corporation
ISBN: 9780793598786
Category : Keyboard instruments
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Piano). This cutting-edge keyboard method is a total step-by-step approach to creating keyboard parts spontaneously. Rhythmic and harmonic concepts are applied in all keys, and are then used as a basis for developing specific solutions in rock, pop, ballad, funk, new age, country and gospel styles. Endorsed by Grammy winners, top educators, and Keyboard magazine.