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Don't Lose Your Keys: Exploring The Transition From Harpsichord To Piano, Justice Post

Capstone Projects and Master's Theses

This paper explores keyboard technology in music from the Baroque era to today. Central focus is on the initial dominance of the harpsichord in Western music and how this shifted to the piano. Using this context of evolving instrumentation, the paper considers how this coincided with changing styles of music composition. Finally, the paper considers the question of how a keyboardist of today should handle music written in eras before the piano existed, and whether it is appropriate to perform harpsichord music using a modern piano.

A Blend Of Traditions: The Lute’S Influence On Seventeenth-Century Harpsichord Repertoire, Audrey S. Rutt

The Research and Scholarship Symposium (2013-2019)

The close relationship between the harpsichord and lute traditions is commonly claimed but rarely elaborated upon, and many experts disagree on the manner in and extent to which the two are related. Often, texts covering the early harpsichord literature will limit discussion of the lute’s influence to a brief mention of the style brisé, if the important connection between the two traditions is even mentioned all. The lute’s impact on the harpsichordists of the seventeenth century is not a facet that can be ignored; rather, an understanding of the lute tradition is essential to an understanding of the harpsichord tradition. …

Born To Conquer: The Fortepiano’S Revolution Of Keyboard Technique And Style, Rachel A. Lowrance

Musical Offerings

The fortepiano had a rough beginning. In 1709 it entered a world that was not quite ready for it; a world that was very comfortable with the earlier keyboard instruments, especially the harpsichord. Pianists and composers were used to the harpsichord technique and style, which is drastically different from the piano. This is because the harpsichord was actually a very different instrument than the piano, as is explained in this paper. This paper traces the history of the piano's rise to dominance over the harpsichord, and how its unique hammer action began creating an idiomatic piano style. The piano also …

Volume 23, Number 11 (November 1905), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

Carl Baermann: Some Characteristics of His Art and His Playing

Men and Things of the Day in Music

Music in the University of California

Mme. Wanda Landowska

How May a Child's Musical Talent be Determined!

Music Teachers and Pupils: A Study in Influences

Why Does a Composer Compose?

Realism in Music

On Traits and Characteristics of Students

Methods and their Use

True Musical Understanding: Is it the Result of Rule and Measure?

Useful Gymnastic Exercises for Musicians

Volume 17, Number 08 (August 1899), Winton J. Baltzell

The Etude Magazine: 1883-1957

The Road to Parnassus

Songs for the Piano

Man Who Played the Cymbals: A Musical Story

Way to a Just Criticism

Strauss Waltz and the Critics

Courage, Young Teachers!

Creating Musical Atmosphere

Train Musicians Early

Song-Writing as a Profession

Musician's Marriage: A Study of Matrimony and Music

Revival of the Harpsichord

Artistic Playing in Simple Pieces

Should a Beginner be Taught Variety of Touch?

Choosing Music as a Profession

Rag-Time, II

Notes on Schumann's Soaring

Interpretation

Some Hints on the Use of the Pedals

Understand Music Before Playing It

Musical Atmosphere

Musician's Reading

Aphorisms on Music Education

Specialist in Music …