Book contents
- A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
- A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Pitch Notation Conventions
- One Keyboard Origins
- Two Principles of Design and Construction
- Three The Henri Arnaut Manuscript
- Four The Renaissance
- Five The Baroque Period
- Six The Invention of the Piano
- Seven The Classical Period
- Eight The Romantic Era
- Nine Stagnation and Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
Five - The Baroque Period
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 03 April 2022
- A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
- A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Preface and Acknowledgments
- Pitch Notation Conventions
- One Keyboard Origins
- Two Principles of Design and Construction
- Three The Henri Arnaut Manuscript
- Four The Renaissance
- Five The Baroque Period
- Six The Invention of the Piano
- Seven The Classical Period
- Eight The Romantic Era
- Nine Stagnation and Revival
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
This chapter includes transcriptions and translations of material on keyboard instruments found in the writings of Jakob Adlung, Marin Mersenne, and Michael Praetorius, as well as technical descriptions of the keyboard instruments used by Johann Sebastian Bach, members of the Couperin family, George Frederick Handel, Domenico Scarlatti, Padre Antonio Soler, and other composers of the period. This chapter provides explicit tuning instructions and analysis of temperaments used in the period, notably meantone, temperament ordinaire, and various circulating and so-called “well temperaments” that appear in treatises written by Denis, Corrette, Kirnberger, Mersenne, Marpurg, Neidhardt, Rameau, Werckmeister, and others.
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- A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments , pp. 210 - 312Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2022