A Natural History of the Piano
The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: eBook, 384 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $12.99
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.
With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of
Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history...
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A Natural History of the Piano
The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians--from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: Hardcover, 384 pages
On Sale: November 15, 2011
Price: $30.00
A beautifully illustrated, totally engrossing celebration of the piano, and the composers and performers who have made it their own.
With honed sensitivity and unquestioned expertise, Stuart Isacoff—pianist, critic, teacher, and author of
Temperament: How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization—unfolds the ongoing history...
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Temperament
How Music Became a Battleground for the Great Minds of Western Civilization
Written by Stuart Isacoff
Format: eBook, 288 pages
On Sale: January 16, 2009
Price: $15.99
Few music lovers realize that the arrangement of notes on today’s pianos was once regarded as a crime against God and nature, or that such legendary thinkers as Pythagoras, Plato, da Vinci, Galileo, Kepler, Descartes, Newton and Rousseau played a role in the controversy. Indeed, from the time of the Ancient...
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