ABSTRACT
Research in the field of keyboard studies, especially when intimately connected with issues of performance, is often concerned with the immediate working environments and practices of musicians of the past. An important pedagogical tool, the keyboard has served as the ’workbench’ of countless musicians over the centuries. In the process it has shaped the ways in which many historical musicians achieved their aspirations and went about meeting creative challenges. In recent decades interest has turned towards a contextualized understanding of creative processes in music, and keyboard studies appears well placed to contribute to the exploration of this wider concern. The nineteen essays collected here encompass the range of research in the field, bringing together contributions from performers, organologists and music historians. Questions relevant to issues of creative practice in various historical contexts, and of interpretative issues faced today, form a guiding thread. Its scope is wide-ranging, with contributions covering the mid-sixteenth to early twentieth century. It is also inclusive, encompassing the diverse range of approaches to the field of contemporary keyboard studies. Collectively the essays form a survey of the ways in which the study of keyboard performance can enrich our understanding of musical life in a given period.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|35 pages
Renaissance Keyboard Music
chapter 1|12 pages
Some Aspects of P-Cug, MM 242
chapter 2|12 pages
Making Connections
chapter 3|10 pages
William Byrd's My Ladye Nevells booke (1591)
part II|71 pages
Seventeenth-Century Keyboard Music
chapter 4|22 pages
Giovanni Maria Trabaci and the New Manner of Inganni
chapter 5|18 pages
Places of Memory and Invention
chapter 6|14 pages
The Libro di Fra Gioseffo da Ravenna
chapter 7|16 pages
A Discourse of Styles
part III|71 pages
Performance Practice
chapter 10|16 pages
‘In playing those bells, his amazing dexterity raised my wonder much higher'
chapter 11|16 pages
Dynamics and Orchestral Effects in Late Eighteenth-Century Portuguese Organ Music
part IV|33 pages
Perspectives on Eighteenth-Century Repertoire
part V|51 pages
The Nineteenth-Century Piano and Repertoire