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Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : London ; New York : Novello, Ewer
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1896
Category : Keyboard instruments
ISBN : UOM:39015013640779
Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 124 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Keyboard instruments
ISBN : OCLC:940332266
Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:603356427
Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-12
Category : Music
ISBN : 0266205356
Excerpt from A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments There is no musical instrument so extensively used as the piano forte, and there is certainly none so little understood by the player, in the construction, or the legitimate treatment according to the construction. It would be more intimately known if the performer had to tune it, but the difficulty Of tuning renders the employment of a specialist in that art necessary. Few piano players know more about a piano than that the sounds are caused by hammers striking against wire strings. There has, however, arisen in our leading music schools a desire to know more, and students are not now satisfied to remain unacquainted with the nature of their instru ment. TO assist those who are curious about its construction is one of the Obj ects for which this book is written. I have chosen to start from the introduction of iron in the construction of the pianoforte, about 1820, as convenient for my purpose, regarding the entirely wooden framed piano as appertaining to an historical division, in which the precursors Of the piano, the clavichord, virginal or spinet, and harpsichord will be found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : A. J. Hipkins
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0243651686
Author : Alfred J 1826-1903 Hipkins
Publisher : Andesite Press
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-08-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1298615607
This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : Alfred James Hipkins
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
Page : 48 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 123073323X
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ... of four-foot pitch. There are twenty-five pedals. The maker's inscription is "Johann David Gerstenberg, Orgelbauer zu Geringswald, hat uns gemacht, 1760." Ultimately the double stopping became the normal, and the open notes produced by the farthest tangents backwards were F, G, A, B flat, C, D, E flat, the seventh Gregorian tone transposed, and a possible heritage from the old transposition scales (the Heptas) of the Greeks. t In this arrangement the D and A were free, or single tangent notes, without other stopping on those strings, the other strings having a double stopping in order to obtain the notes required to complete the chromatic scale. To do this F sharp was fretted upon F, shortening the strings by so much as is required to make the semitone; G sharp upon G, B natural upon B flat, C sharp upon C, and E natural upon E flat. The choice of the scale notes so as to Lave A and D free depended upon the tuning, thus: the tuner would take four fifths up, F--C, C--G, Q--D, D--A (tuning down the G an octave to bring the notes conveniently near), and two fifths down or fourths up, F--B flat--E flat; thus securing the seven notes in a diatonic system without the leading semitone. Then the scale was made chromatic by stopping or fretting with additional tangents as already described. The tuner might have taken six upward fifths so as to get E and B natural open, and this was, it is said, in the eighteenth century done; J but a groundwork with this intention was not thought of when the Church Modes prevailed. The A and D were prominent notes in the first and second modes, and the B flat and E flat had more importance, especially the B flat, as notes of transposition than the corresponding natural notes. Other scalings in the old...
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 595 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-04-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781108421997
The first comprehensive technical and historical study of stringed keyboard instruments from their fourteenth-century origins to modern times.
Author : Edgar Brinsmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1876
Category : Electronic
ISBN : NLS:V000550128
Author : Edgar Brinsmead
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1870
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590117260
Author : Robert Palmieri
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 552 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2004-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781135949648
First Published in 2011. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Stewart Pollens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1995-09-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 0521417295
This is the first comprehensive study of the history and technology of the early piano.
Author : Susan Wollenberg
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-09-29
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781351541572
Since the publication of The London Pianoforte School (ed. Nicholas Temperley) twenty years ago, research has proliferated in the area of music for the piano during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and into developments in the musical life of London, for a time the centre of piano manufacturing, publishing and performance. But none has focused on the piano exclusively within Britain. The eleven chapters in this volume explore major issues surrounding the instrument, its performers and music within an expanded geographical context created by the spread of the instrument and the growth of concert touring. Topics covered include: the piano trade and how piano manufacturing affected a major provincial town; the reception of Bach's Well-Tempered Clavier and Clementi's Gradus ad Parnassum during the nineteenth century; the shift from composer-pianists to pianist-interpreters in the first half of the century that triggered crucial changes in piano performance and concert structure; the growth of musical life in the peripheries outside major musical centres; the pianist as advocate for contemporary composers as well as for historical repertory; the status of British pianists both in relation to foreigners on tour in Britain and as welcomed star performers in outposts of the Empire; marketing forces that had an impact on piano sales, concerts and piano careers; leading virtuosos, writers and critics; the important role played by women pianists and the development of the recording industry, bringing the volume into the early twentieth century.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher : Copyright Office, Library of Congress
Page : 1482 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1977
Category : Copyright
ISBN : STANFORD:36105119498454
Author : James E. Matthew
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 542 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1898
Category : Music
ISBN : NYPL:33433082167507