Early keyboard instruments a practical guide - Rowland, David, (David E.) (Cambridge University Press, 2001)
Includes bibliographical references (pages 143-147) and index
Stylistic awareness and keyboard music -- Repertory, performance and notation. Choice and sources of repertory. Repertories, performance traditions and keyboard tutors. Editions and facsimiles. Aspects of notation -- The instruments. Harpsichords. Virginals and spinets. Clavichords. Pianos. Temperaments. Purchase, care and tuning of reproduction instruments -- Use of instruments and technique. Which instrument? . Harpsichord registration. Piano pedalling. Hand position and finger technique. Fingering and keyboard touch. Some clavichord techniques -- Non-notated and notated issues. Improvisation and preluding . Cadenzas, fermatas and lead-ins. Embellishment. Tempo fluctuation and tempo rubato. Slurs, dots and wedges. Spread chords -- Case studies. Louis Couperin's suites. J.S. Bach: French Overture. Haydn: Sonata in C minor, Hob. XVI:20 . Mozart: Piano Concerto in C Major, K.467. Beethoven: Sonata in D major, Op. 10, No. 3. Chopin: Nocturne in E♭, Op. 9, No. 2 -- Continuo realisation. Instrumentation. Texture and style. Recitative accompaniment
Discusses a variety of issues involved in the performance of keyboard music from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. Forms a useful introduction to historical performance issues for student performers or amateurs, whether playing on period instruments or on the modern piano