David Rowland (Editor) - The Cambridge Companion to the Piano

The Cambridge Companion to the Piano

The Cambridge Companion to the Piano is an informative and practical guide to one of the worlds most popular instruments. This collection of specially commissioned essays offers an accessible introduction to the history of the piano, performance styles and its vast repertory. explores the varied repertory in its social and stylistic contexts, up to the present, with a final chapter on jazz, blues and ragtime. The Companion also contains a glossary of important terms and will be a valuable source for the piano performer, student and enthusiast.

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The Cambridge Companion to the

PIANO

EDITED BY

David Rowland

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS

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Cambridge University Press

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Published in the United States of America by Cambridge University Press, New York

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Cambridge University Press 1998

This publication is in copyright. Subject to statutory exception and to the provisions of relevant collective licensing agreements, no reproduction of any part may take place without the written permission of Cambridge University Press.

First published 1998

Third printing 2004

A catalogue record for this publication is available from the British Library

Library of Congress Cataloguing in Publication data

The Cambridge companion to the piano/edited by David Rowland.

p. cm. (Cambridge companions to music)

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 0 521 47470 1 (hardback) ISBN 0 521 47986 X (paperback)

1. Piano. I. Rowland, David, Dr. II. Series.

ML650.C3 1998

786.2dc21 9741860 CIP MN

ISBN-13 978-0-521-47470-2 hardback

ISBN-10 0-521-47470-1 hardback

ISBN-13 978-0-521-47986-8 paperback

ISBN-10 0-521-47986-X paperback

Transferred to digital printing 2006

Contents

David Rowland

David Rowland

David Rowland

David Rowland

Kenneth Hamilton

Robert Philip

Bernard Richardson

Dorothy de Val and Cyril Ehrlich

David Rowland

J. Barrie Jones

J. Barrie Jones

Mervyn Cooke

Brian Priestley

Figures

Music examples

Notes on the contributors

Mervyn Cooke was for six years a Research Fellow and Director of Music at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge, before being appointed Lecturer in Music at the University of Nottingham. His publications include Cambridge University Press handbooks on Brittens Billy Budd and War Requiem , a monograph Britten and the Far East and two volumes devoted to jazz (Thames and Hudson); he is currently involved in the preparation of an edition of Brittens letters and editing the Cambridge companion to Britten . He is also active as a pianist and composer, his compositions having been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Radio France, and performed at Londons South Bank and St Johns Smith Square.

Cyril Ehrlich is Emeritus Professor of Social and Economic History at the Queens University Belfast and has also been Visiting Professor in Music at Royal Holloway and Bedford New College. He has written extensively on musical matters in his books First Philharmonic: a history of the Royal Philharmonic Society ; Harmonious alliance: a history of the Performing Right Society and The music profession in Britain since the eighteenth century . His book The piano: a history has become essential reading for piano historians.

Kenneth Hamilton is well known as a concert pianist and writer on music. He has performed extensively both in Britain and abroad, specialising mainly in the Romantic repertory, and has broadcast on radio and television. His book on Liszts Sonata in B minor is published by Cambridge University Press, and he is currently working on a large-scale study of Liszt and nineteenth-century pianism. He has premiered many unpublished virtuoso works by Liszt and others (some in his own completion), and is at present a member of the music department of Birmingham University.

Barrie Jones is a Lecturer in Music at the Open University. His main interests lie in the nineteenth century, particularly keyboard music. He has made extensive contributions to several Open University courses, has translated and edited Faurs letters, Gabriel Faur: a life in letters (Batsford, 1989) and published a number of articles on Schumann, Liszt, Granados and Parry. He continues to perform regularly on the piano.

Robert Philip is a producer at the BBCs Open University Production Centre, and a Visiting Research Fellow at the Open University. He has written and presented many programmes for BBC Radio 3, often on the subject of early recordings. His book Early recordings and musical style (Cambridge, 1992) was the first large-scale survey of performance practice in the early twentieth century. He has also contributed chapters to Performance practice , ed. Howard Mayer Brown and Stanley Sadie (London, 1989) and Performing Beethoven , ed. Robin Stowell (Cambridge, 1994). He is currently writing A century of performance , a survey of trends in twentieth-century performance.

Brian Priestley is a performer, writer and broadcaster who taught jazz piano for many years at University of London, Goldsmiths College. Now an Associate Lecturer at the University of Surrey, he is a contributor to the International directory of black composers and to the New Grove dictionaries of American music and of jazz, and has written several widely praised biographies. For the best part of twenty-five years, he has presented a weekly radio programme, currently on Jazz FM.