The Mechanical Muse: The Piano, Pianism and Piano Music, c.1760-1850
by Derek Carew
2017-07-05666 pages
About this book
This book charts the piano's accession from musical curiosity to cultural icon, examining the instrument itself in its various guises as well as the music written for it. Both the piano and piano music were very much the product of the intellectual, cultural and social environments of the period and…
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