Piano roles : three hundred years of life with the piano / James Parakilas with E. Douglas Bomberger [and others] ; foreword by Noah Adams.
By: Parakilas, James
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TextPublisher: New Haven : Yale University Press, 1999Description: x, 461 pages : illustrations ; 26 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0300083513 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0300080557 (cloth : alk. paper)Subject(s): Piano -- History | Music -- Social aspectsDDC classification: 786.2/09 LOC classification: ML650 | .P37 1999Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-435) and index.
1700 to 1770s: the need for the piano / James Parakilas -- Designing, making, and selling pianos / Edwin M. Good, Cynthia Adams Hoover -- The player piano / Michael Chanan -- 1770s to 1820s: the piano revolution in the age of revolutions / James Parakilas, Gretchen A. Wheelock -- The piano lesson / E. Douglas Bomberger ... [et al.] -- The metronome / Marina Tsvetaeva -- Le tabouret (the piano stool) / Marina Tsvetaeva -- 1820s to 1870s: the piano calls the tune / Charlotte N. Eyerman, James Parakilas -- The piano tuner / James Parakilas -- The image of the composer at the piano / James Parakilas -- The concert and the virtuoso / Richard Leppert, Stephen Zank -- 1870s to 1920s: the world's the limit / Atsuko Hirai, James Parakilas -- Preview: silent movies with piano / Michael Chanan -- Hollywood's embattled icon / Ivan Raykoff -- 1920s to 2000: new voices from the old impersonator / Michael Chanan, James Parakilas, Mark Tucker -- Afterword: making the piano historical / James Parakilas.