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Author:   Edward L. Kottick
Publisher:   Indiana University Press
Imprint:   Indiana University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 17.80cm , Height: 3.80cm , Length: 25.40cm
Weight:   1.157kg
ISBN:  

9780253023476

ISBN 10:   0253023475
Pages:   576
Publication Date:   15 February 2016
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Table of Contents

List of Plates and Illustrations Acknowledgments Introduction The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries 1. From Psaltery and Monochord to Harpsichord and Virginal The Sixteenth Century 2. The Emergence of the Northern Harpsichord 3. Antwerp Harpsichord Building between Karest and Ruckers 4. Early Italian Style The Seventeenth Century 5. The Ruckers-Couchet Dynasty 6. Later Italian Style 7. Seventeenth-Century International Style 8. France 9. Germany and Austria 10. England The Eighteenth Century 11. The Decline of the Italian Harpsichord 12. The Iberian Peninsula 13. Harpsichord building in France to the Revolution 14. The Low Countries in the Post-Ruckers Era 15. Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, and Switzerland 16. Great Britain and America The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries 17. The Harpsichord Hibernates 18. The Harpsichord Revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II 19. The Modern Harpsichord 20. Into the future Glossary Bibliography Appendix: Exploded views Index

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Instrument maker, scholar, researcher, author, and lecturer, musicologist Edward L. Kottick built his first harpsichord in 1963. He has investigated the instrument's acoustical properties as well as its historical aspects, and has published articles on the harpsichord in both scientific and scholarly journals.

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