Gordon, Stewart, 1930-,

A history of keyboard literature : music for the piano and its forerunners / [print] Stewart Gordon. - New York : Schirmer Books ; (c)1996. London : Prentice Hall International, (c)1996. - viii, 566 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.



Stringed keyboard instruments -- Keyboard music to the end of the Renaissance -- Baroque keyboard music in Italy, France, England, and Germany -- George Frideric Handel and Johann Sebastian Bach -- The galant style -- Franz Joseph Haydn -- Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart -- Ludwig van Beethoven -- The turn of the nineteenth century -- Franz Peter Schubert -- Felix Mendelssohn -- Robert (Alexander) Schumann -- Fryderyk Franciszek Chopin -- Franz Liszt -- Johannes Brahms -- Other composers of the nineteenth century -- French keyboard music of the early twentieth century -- Spanish, Portuguese, and Latin keyboard music in the twentieth century -- Russian Keyboard music -- The United States and Canada in the twentieth century.



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Keyboard instrument music--History and criticism.
Piano music--History and criticism.

ML700.G665.H578 1996