Early Keyboard Bibliography

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AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLICATION DETAILS	ISBN
Apel, Willi	The History of Keyboard Music to 1700	Indiana University Press 1972	0 253 32795 4
Arnold, F T	The Art of Accompaniment from a Thorough-bass as practised in the XVIIth & XVIII Centuries	Dover 1965 (2 vols)	0 486 21442 7 0 486 21443 5
Bach, CPE [Mitchell, William J (trans & ed)]	† Essay on the True Art of Keyboard Instruments	Eulenberg Books London 1974	0 903873 01 X
Beghin, Tom	The Virtual Haydn: Paradox of a Twenty-First-Century Keyboardist	University of Chicago Press 2015	978 0 226 15677 4
Booth, Colin	Did Bach really mean that? Deceptive notation in Baroque keyboard music	Mark Argent & Soundboard 2010	978 0 9547488 1 4
Breitman, David	Piano-Playing Revisited: What Modern Players Can Learn from Period Instruments	Boydell & Brewer Ltd 2021	978 1 64825 010 1
Brown, Howard Mayer	Embellishing 16th-century Music	Oxford 1984	0 19 323175 1
Brown, Howard Mayer	Music in the Rennaissance	Prentice-Hall 1976	0 13 608497 4
Bukofzer, Manfred F	Music in the Baroque Era	J M Dent & Sons Ltd 1977	-
Butt, John	Playing with History — The Historical Approach to Musical Performance	Cambridge University Press 2005	0 521 01358 5
Caldwell, John	Editing Early Music	Oxford 1985	0 19 816142 5
Caldwell, John	English Keyboard Music Before the Nineteenth Century	Dover 1985	0 486 24851 8
Peres Da Costa, Neal	Off the Record — Performing Practices in Romantic Piano Playing	Oxford University Press NY 2012	978 0195386912
Dart, Thurston	The Interpretation of Music	Hutchinson of London 1978	0 09 031684 3
Dolmetsch, Arnold	The Interpretation of the Music of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries	University of Washington Press 1977	0 295 78578 0
Donahue, Thomas [ed]	Essays in Honor of Christopher Hogwood: The Maestro’s Direction	Scarecrow Press 2011	978 0 8108 7737 5
Donnington, Robert	† The Interpretation of Early Music	Faber & Faber 1979	0 571 04789 0
Donnington, Robert	Baroque Music: Style and Performance	Norton 1982	0 393 30052 8
Drake, Kenneth	The Sonatas of Beethoven As He Played and Taught Them	Indiana University Press 1981	0253 20262 0
Emery, Walter	Bach’s Ornaments	Novello 1975	-
Ferguson, Howard	† Keyboard Interpretation from the 14th to the 19th century	Oxford University Press 1979	0 19 318419 2
Friskin, James & Freundlich, Irwin	Music for the Piano	Dover 1973	0 486 22918 1
Gillespie, John	Five Centuries of Keyboard Music	Dover 1972	0 486 22855 X
Glyn, Margaret H	About Elizabethan Virginal Music and its Composers	William Reeves, London	-
Harich-Schneider, Eta	Die Kunst des Cembalo-spiels	Bärenreiter 1958 DEUTSCH	-
Harich-Schneider, Eta	The Harpsichord — an introduction to the technique style and the historical sources	Bärenreiter 1973	3 7618 0066 5
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus [O’Neill Mary (trans)]	The Musical Dialogue — Thoughts on Monteverdi, Bach and Mozart	Christopher Helm 1989	0 7470 1415 9
Harnoncourt, Nikolaus [O’Neill, Mary (trans)]	Baroque Music Today: Music as Speech	Christopher Helm 1988	0 7470 1411 6
Haynes, Bruce	The End of Early Music — A period performer’s history of music for the twenty-first century	Oxford University Press NY 2007	978 0 19 518987 2
Kosovske, Yonit Lea	Historical Harpsichord Technique — Developing La douceur du toucher	Indiana University Press 2011	978 0 253 35647 5
Saint Lambert [Harris-Warrick, Rebecca (trans & ed)]	Principles of the Harpsichord by Monsieur de Saint Lambert	Cambridge 1984	0 521 27269 6
Keller, Hermann [Gerdine, Leigh (trans)]	Phrasing and Articulation — A Contribution to the Rhetoric of Music	Norton 1973	0 393 00681 6
Keller, Hermann [Parrish, Carl (trans & ed)]	Thoroughbass Method	Norton 1965	0 393 09744 7
Kelly, Thomas Forrest	Early Music — A Very Short Introduction	Oxford University Press 2011	978 0 19 973076 6
Kenyon, Max	Harpsichord Music — A Survey of the Virginals, Spinet and Harpsichord	Cassell & Company Ltd 1949	-
Kenyon, Nicholas [ed]	Authenticity and Early Music	Oxford 1989	0 19 816153 0
Komlós, Katalin	Fortepianos and their Music	Clarendon Press Oxford 1995	0 19 816426 2
Kroll, Mark	Playing the Harpsichord Expressively — a Practical and Historical Guide	Scarecrow Press, Inc 2004	0 8108 5032 X
Ledbetter, David [commentary]	Continuo Playing According to Handel — His figured bass exercises	Oxford University Press 1990	978 0 19 318433 6
Ledbeter, David	Harpsichord and Lute Music in 17th-century France	MacMillan 1987	0 333 42755 6
Leppard, Raymond	Authenticity in Music	Faber Music 1988	0 571 10088 0
Mattax, Charlotte [trans]	Accompaniment on the Theorbo & Harpsichord — Denis Delair’s Treatise of 1690	Indiana University Press 1991	0 253 28592 5
Matthews, Denis	Beethoven Piano Sonatas	BBC 1979	0 563 07304 7
Morley, Thomas [Harman, Alec (ed)]	A Plain & Easy Introduction to Music	Norton 1973	0 393 00682 4
Mozart, Leopold [Knocker, Editha (trans)]	A Treatise on the Fundamental Principles of Violin Playing	Oxford 1985	0 19 318 513 X
Naylor, E W	An Elizabethan Virginal Book—Being a critical essay on the contents of a manuscript in the Fitzwilliam Museum at Cambridge	J M Dent & Co 1905	-
Nurmi, Ruth	A Plain and Easy Introduction to the Harpsichord	University of New Mexico Press 1974	0 8263 0324 2
Powell, John S [trans & ed]	A New Treatise on Accompaniment with the Harpsichord, the Organ, and with other instruments by Monsieur de Saint Lambert	Indiana University Press 1991	0 253 34561 8
Quantz, Johann Joachim [Reilly, Edward R (trans)]	On Playing the Flute	Schirmer 1966	-
Ree Bernard, Nelly van	Interpretation of 16th Century Iberian Music on the Clavichord	Frits Knuf 1989	90 6027 608 6
Rosen, Charles	The Classical Style — Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven	Faber 1976	0 571 04905 2
Rosenblum, Sandra P	Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music	Indiana University Press 1988	0 253 20680 4
Rowland, David	Early Keyboard Instruments — A Practical Guide	Cambridge University Press 2001	0 521 64366 X
Schott, Howard	† Playing the Harpsichord	Faber & Faber 1979	0 571 11375 3
Terry, Charles Sanford	The Music of Bach — An Introduction	Dover 1963	0 486 21075 8
Troeger, Richard	† Technique and Interpretation on the Harpsichord and Clavichord	Indiana University Press 1987	0 253 20408 9
Valenti, Fernando	The Harpsichord: A Dialogue for Beginners	Jerona Music Corporation 1982	-
Villanis, Luigi Alberto	L’Arte del Clavicembalo	Fratelli Bocca 1901 ITALIAN	-
Williams, Peter	Figured Bass Accompaniment	Edinburgh University Press 1982 (2 vols)	0 85224 452 5 0 85224 452 5
Di, Zhu & Lindorff, Joyce Zankel	Baroque Keyboard Performance Practice • 巴洛克键盘音乐演奏传统	Culture and Art Publishing House CHINESE	978 7 5039 6901 0

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