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Piano roles : a new history of the piano / James Parakilas with E. Douglas Bomberger [and others].

Author
Parakilas, James
Additional Titles
Title from PDF cover: Piano roles, three hundred years of life with the piano
Published
New Haven [Conn.] : Yale Nota Bene, 2002.
Physical Description
1 online resource (ix, 391 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations
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Contents
1700 to 1770s : the need for the piano / James Parakilas -- Designing, making, and selling pianos / Edwin M. Good, Cynthia Adams Hoover, Michael Chanan -- 1770s to 1820s : the piano revolution in the age of revolutions / James Parakilas, Gretchen A. Wheelock -- The piano lesson / James Parakilas [and others] -- 1820s to 1870s : the piano calls the tune / James Parakilas, Charlotte N. Eyerman -- The concert and the virtuoso / Stephen Zank, Richard Leppert -- 1870s to 1920s : the world's the limit / James Parakilas, Atsuko Hirai -- Hollywood's embattled icon / Ivan Raykoff with a preview by Michael Chanan -- 1920s to 2000 : new voices from the old impersonator / James Parakilas, Mark Tucker, Michael Chanan -- Afterword : Making the piano historical / James Parakilas.
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ISBN
9780300130829 (electronic bk.)
0300130821 (electronic bk.)
Note
"Originally published in a slightly different form in 2000 by Yale University Press as Piano roles: three hundred years of life with the piano"--Title page verso
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 327-367) and index.
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