English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century
By John Caldwell.
Description
English composers and instrument-makers played a major role in the evolution of keyboard instruments and the development of keyboard music. In this meticulously researched and erudite study, John Caldwell, a noted musicologist and Lecturer in Music at Oxford, examines the history of English keyboard art, from the introduction of the organ to the West (ca. 756), through the greatest phase of English keyboard music (the "virginalists"), to the final contributions of John Field at the beginning of the nineteenth century.Beginning with the earliest known keyboard music, the Robertsbri...
ISBN(s)
0486248518, 9780486248516
