جهت استعلام قیمت، خرید و مشاهده نمونه صفحه محصول، لطفاً از طریق پشتیبانی فروشگاه در واتساپ و تلگرام اقدام فرمایید.
این کتاب به صورت متن و فاقد نت می باشد
by Arthur Loesser (Author), Edward Rothstein (Author), Jacques Barzun (Author)
As the "social anchor" in middle-class homes of the nineteenth
century, the piano was simultaneously an elegant piece of drawing-room
furniture, a sign of bourgeois prosperity, and a means of introducing
the young to music. In this admirably balanced and leisurely account of
the popular instrument, the late, internationally known concert pianist
Arthur Loesser takes a "piano's-eye view" of the recent social history
of Western Europe and the United States.
Drawing on newspapers, music
manuscripts, popular accounts, and other sources, Loesser traces the
history of the piano from its predecessors, the clavichord and the
harpsichord, to the modern spinet and concert grand. Chapter headings
such as "Clavichords Make Weeping Easier," "The Harpsichord Grows Feet,"
"The More Pianos the Merrier," and "The Keyboards Go West" suggest the
author's lighthearted approach to topics ranging from the piano's
European origins and its introduction in the United States to the
decline of piano manufacturing in the early twentieth century and the
"victory of airborne music" by mid-century. A preface by historian
Jacques Barzun and a new foreword by music critic Edward Rothstein
enhance a volume rich in wit and knowledge — one that will delight any
reader with an interest in the piano and on Western cultural history.