This delightfully written book examines every aspect of the history of the piano over the past three hundred years. It deals with the piano's place in classical and popular music cultures, its meaning in different eras, its acceptance in all parts of the world, and images it has inspired in literature, art, and the movies. This new paperback ...
In July of 1884, pianist Calixa Lavallee performed a recital of works by American composers that began a highly influential series of such concerts. Over the course of the next decade, hundreds of all-American concerts were performed in the United States and Europe, a movement that fostered both the development and the perception of American music ...
A selection of biographical sketches of 138 American musicians that were originally published in the journal, "Brainard's Musical World" between 1877 and 1889. The biographies include singers, instrumentalists, writers, teachers and composers, such as Theodore Thomas and John S. Dwight.
The Etude magazine, published continuously from 1883 to 1957, included musical compositions in every issue, for a total of over 10,000 works. This index provides bibliographic access to the music for the first time, with detailed listings of the contents of each issue as well as indexes by composer, title, text author, and instrumentation.
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