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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      16 November 2009
      02 December 1993
      ISBN:
      9780511597251
      9780521607513
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511597251
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      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.38kg, 208 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Music, Music Performance
      Series:
      Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    Music, Music Performance
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    Cambridge Musical Texts and Monographs
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    David Rowland traces the history of piano pedalling from its beginnings in the eighteenth century to its first maturity in the middle of the nineteenth century and beyond. Pedalling technique was a major feature of nineteenth-century piano performance and, coupled with new developments in piano structure, inspired many composers to write innovative works for the literature. Rowland examines this through the technique and music of composer-pianists such as Beethoven, Liszt, and Chopin. In addition, he follows the transition from harpsichord and clavichord to piano and outlines the physical properties of the various stops, levers, and pedals available at the different stages of the instrument's development. The book also includes an appendix of translated extracts from three well-known piano-pedalling tutors. It will be of interest to students and scholars of music history and performance practice, as well as to pianists.

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    "Although this is admittedly a highly specialized study, it is one that should not be neglected by musical historians, or by pianists who are interested in improving their understanding of the music of the past." Notes

    "Rowland has done a great service by gathering together all of the 'hard' evidence: quotations from treatises, descriptions of performances, students' accounts, and musical examples with composers' pedal markings. Pianists will find much that is fascinating ..." Early Keyboard Journal

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