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A natural history of the piano : the instrument, the music, the musicians--from Mozart to modern jazz, and everything in between
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Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully ...
Unfolds the ongoing history and evolution of the piano and all its myriad wonders: how its very sound provides the basis for emotional expression and individual style, and why it has so powerfully entertained generation upon generation of listeners.
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- Creator
- Stuart Isacoff
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
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- First edition
- New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011
- Physical Details
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- xv, 361 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780307266378, 0307266370
- OCLC
- ocn704383446
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- A gathering of traditions -- The piano is born -- The first piano superstar -- Piano fever -- Performers on the road -- The four sounds -- The combustibles -- The alchemists -- The rhythmizers -- The melodists -- The cultivated and the vernacular -- The Russians are coming -- The Germans and their close relations -- Keys to the world -- On the cutting edge -- Everything old is new again