Men, women, and pianos : a social history / Arthur Loesser ; with a new foreword by Edward Rothstein and a preface by Jacques Barzun, Monographie imprimée

Main Author: Loesser, Arthur, 1894-1969, AuteurSecondary Author: Rothstein, Edward, 1952-...., Préfacier;Barzun, Jacques, 1907-2012, PréfacierLanguage: anglais.Country: EtatsUnis.Publication : New York : Dover Publications, 1990Description: 1 vol. (XVIII- 654 pages) : couv. ill. ; 22 cmISBN: 0-486-26543-9; 978-0-486-26543-8.Dewey: 786.2/09, 20Contents note: Germany. Each keyboard has its place "Feeling" seems better than logic The super-chopping-board arouses much feeling; why not fit it with keys? An Italian thought of it first; he cleverly made hammers rebound The Italians soon lose interest in the new idea The new "soft-loud" makes modest but steady progress in Germany Townspeople become richer and more assertive Singing warms a home, and a keyboard helps the singing Clavichords make weeping easier The claviers are feminine Improved music printing favors the keyboards Clavier playing becomes lighter, and often more trivial The clavier favors the music of "humanity" Connoisseurs and amateurs are influential. Concerts may be meetings or shows "Here they have pianofortes everywhere" The "German-action" pianoforte and its master maker. A lesson from Mozart The three claviers are neck and neck, but the pianoforte wins out Austria. Society and music "Clavierland" An old "new deal" Pianos become a business Aspiration and pretense What did Vienna pianos look like? Who could afford pianos? Beethoveniana pianistica What did they play on Vienna pianos? The piano in public England. Gentility and money, music and virginals (I) Gentility and money, music and virginals (II) Virginal music Virginals at home The virginal becomes a harpsichord; the instrument according to Mr. Pepys The harpsichord grows feet Music becomes an article of commerce But music's stock goes down The harpsichord begins to pall The pianoforte arrives and stays : its early promoters Better and bigger Keyboard music of the later eighteenth century The pianoforte and the Industrial Revolution The pianoforte in London concerts The piano as furniture The music business grows wide and shallow; the piano thrives on it Clementi, and company The piano as a female "accomplishment." The writers' testimony Anti-"accomplishment" Later London pianists and their adventures "Brilliant but not difficult" Boarding school music; Logier and his chiroplast Iron enters the pianoforte France. The great monarch, music, and the myth of Paris Before "the deluge" "Cet instrument bourgeois" France produces her own piano maker An inventory under the Terror Sequel to the inventory Aspasia strums a cithara; Caesar smites a lyre The Erards grow; the piano aspires and pretends to sing Another great piano name The modern piano evolves The Restoration rich make likely piano customers The piano becomes a purpose in itself The financiers win Mammon on parade The piano catches glory from the Opéra The more pianos the merrier The great rave More rave Piano teaching could be lucrative The business Piano fodder Hopeful gadgets The champion gadgeteer Thesis and antithesis: piano begets antipiano Interlude. The high plateau United States of America. Rich colonials have daughters and harpsichords The pianoforte floats over and strikes root The lively young nation sings songs her mother taught her, with piano accompaniment The American piano takes its own shape A change of apron strings Other American piano trends The Germans invade and establish a beachhead Humbug hums More Germans come. They make American pianos New York hears a good deal of fine piano playing Labels are more powerful than music The American piano wins out at home, then conquers Europe. How "Ruby" played it The American piano's little country cousin A whole is made up of parts Pianos, and stencils, for "the people" Piano firms play virtuosos, and conversely Many Americans study piano more seriously. Some become hadjis, and some do gymnastics Light good music; better light music The keyboards go West Market screaming : with counterpoint, imitation, and variations Household goods are all related Sometimes, better is no good If you can't fight, join General developments. "An instrument that Goethe with a whele withoute playinge uppon" The case of Germany Other lands : the piano In partibus infidelium The dusk of the idol The low plateau Bibliography: Bibliogr. pages 614-624. Index..Subject - Topical Name: Piano, Musique de Histoire | Piano, Musique de Histoire et critique | Piano, Musique de Différences entre sexes | Piano, Musique de Aspect social
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Originally published: New York : Simon and Schuster, 1954

Bibliogr. pages 614-624. Index.

Germany. Each keyboard has its place "Feeling" seems better than logic The super-chopping-board arouses much feeling; why not fit it with keys? An Italian thought of it first; he cleverly made hammers rebound The Italians soon lose interest in the new idea The new "soft-loud" makes modest but steady progress in Germany Townspeople become richer and more assertive Singing warms a home, and a keyboard helps the singing Clavichords make weeping easier The claviers are feminine Improved music printing favors the keyboards Clavier playing becomes lighter, and often more trivial The clavier favors the music of "humanity" Connoisseurs and amateurs are influential. Concerts may be meetings or shows "Here they have pianofortes everywhere" The "German-action" pianoforte and its master maker. A lesson from Mozart The three claviers are neck and neck, but the pianoforte wins out Austria. Society and music "Clavierland" An old "new deal" Pianos become a business Aspiration and pretense What did Vienna pianos look like? Who could afford pianos? Beethoveniana pianistica What did they play on Vienna pianos? The piano in public England. Gentility and money, music and virginals (I) Gentility and money, music and virginals (II) Virginal music Virginals at home The virginal becomes a harpsichord; the instrument according to Mr. Pepys The harpsichord grows feet Music becomes an article of commerce But music's stock goes down The harpsichord begins to pall The pianoforte arrives and stays : its early promoters Better and bigger Keyboard music of the later eighteenth century The pianoforte and the Industrial Revolution The pianoforte in London concerts The piano as furniture The music business grows wide and shallow; the piano thrives on it Clementi, and company The piano as a female "accomplishment." The writers' testimony Anti-"accomplishment" Later London pianists and their adventures "Brilliant but not difficult" Boarding school music; Logier and his chiroplast Iron enters the pianoforte France. The great monarch, music, and the myth of Paris Before "the deluge" "Cet instrument bourgeois" France produces her own piano maker An inventory under the Terror Sequel to the inventory Aspasia strums a cithara; Caesar smites a lyre The Erards grow; the piano aspires and pretends to sing Another great piano name The modern piano evolves The Restoration rich make likely piano customers The piano becomes a purpose in itself The financiers win Mammon on parade The piano catches glory from the Opéra The more pianos the merrier The great rave More rave Piano teaching could be lucrative The business Piano fodder Hopeful gadgets The champion gadgeteer Thesis and antithesis: piano begets antipiano Interlude. The high plateau United States of America. Rich colonials have daughters and harpsichords The pianoforte floats over and strikes root The lively young nation sings songs her mother taught her, with piano accompaniment The American piano takes its own shape A change of apron strings Other American piano trends The Germans invade and establish a beachhead Humbug hums More Germans come. They make American pianos New York hears a good deal of fine piano playing Labels are more powerful than music The American piano wins out at home, then conquers Europe. How "Ruby" played it The American piano's little country cousin A whole is made up of parts Pianos, and stencils, for "the people" Piano firms play virtuosos, and conversely Many Americans study piano more seriously. Some become hadjis, and some do gymnastics Light good music; better light music The keyboards go West Market screaming : with counterpoint, imitation, and variations Household goods are all related Sometimes, better is no good If you can't fight, join General developments. "An instrument that Goethe with a whele withoute playinge uppon" The case of Germany Other lands : the piano In partibus infidelium The dusk of the idol The low plateau

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