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The Lives of the piano / [electronic resource] edited by James R. Gaines.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, c1981.Edition: 1st edDescription: viii, 214 p. : ill. ; 29 cmISBN:
  • 0030579740 :
  • 9780030579745
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 786.2/1 19
LOC classification:
  • ML650 .L58
Other classification:
  • 24.81
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Also issued online.
Contents:
The well-tempered revolution : a consideration of the piano's social and intellectual history / Anthony Burgess -- Enlightenment's gift to the age of romance : how the piano came to be / Annalyn Swan -- Of wood and iron wrought : the making of a Bösendorfer / Anthony Liversidge -- Finding the sound : portrait of a master technician / Dominique Browning -- Beyond playing : a composer's life with the piano / Ned Rorem -- Song and dance : the American way of pianism / William Bolcom -- The ordeal of growth : confessions of a former prodigy / Samuel Lipman -- Pianists in their time : a memoir / Richard Sennett.
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Includes index.

The well-tempered revolution : a consideration of the piano's social and intellectual history / Anthony Burgess -- Enlightenment's gift to the age of romance : how the piano came to be / Annalyn Swan -- Of wood and iron wrought : the making of a Bösendorfer / Anthony Liversidge -- Finding the sound : portrait of a master technician / Dominique Browning -- Beyond playing : a composer's life with the piano / Ned Rorem -- Song and dance : the American way of pianism / William Bolcom -- The ordeal of growth : confessions of a former prodigy / Samuel Lipman -- Pianists in their time : a memoir / Richard Sennett.

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