Keyboard instruments Unknown - 1981

USA: Control Data . Very Good/Good. 1981. First Edition. Hard Cover. Sm 4to 0898935059 Dust jacket repaired tears, price clipped. Black cloth with bright titling on spine. Previous owner's inscription on ffep. 124 pages clean and tight. No other family of musical instruments has such a vast and varied repertoire as the keyboards or holds such universal appeal. This is due in part to the fact that they offer something to everyone: beginning student, virtuoso, and listener alike. They are equally suited to the performance of Bach chorales. Strauss waltzes, honky-tonk blues, hymns, and the most contemporary compositions. In Keyboard Instruments, Clive Unger-Hamilton explores the world of keyboards in depth and detail. He first analyses the three families of keyboard instruments - struck, plucked, and blown. He then explores five centuries of music written especially for keyboards. Finally, he lists the hundred most significant performers, from Oscar Peterson to Artur Rubinstein,… Leer más

Very Good. Publisher: Phaidon, Date of Publication: 1981, Binding: hardcover, Condition: Very Good.

slight signs of use, tight and clean

Control Data Corporation. Used - Good. Ships from the UK. Former library book; may include library markings. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.

Control Data Pub, 1981. Hardcover. Good.

Minneapolis: Control Data Publishing. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1981. Hardcover. 0898935059 . Glossary, index.680gms weight; Covent Garden Music Guides; Vol. 1; B&W Illustrations; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 126 pages .

Control Data, 1981. Hardback in Dust Wrapper.. Very Good - in Very Good DJ. Very slightly ruffled edges of DJ.. First edition (first printing). Hardback in dust wrapper ). Physically 10½” x 7½” (0.7 kg); 124pp; The author explores the world of keyboards in depth and detail. He first analyses the three families of keyboard instruments - struck, plucked and blown. He then explores five centuries of music written especially for keyboards; Finally, he lists the hundred most significant performers, from Oscar Peterson to Artur Rubinstein, and comments on particular aspects of their playing and the fields in which they excel. Includes 150 Illustrations, a glossary, and an index. ISBN: 0898935059 || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise of Peasedown St. John, Bath, by a real bookseller in a real book shop - with my personal guarantee and my beady eye on the Consumer Contracts Regulations. REMEMBER! Buying my copy means the… Leer más