Bärenreiter Piano Album. Baroque

Editor: Erényi, Adél Orchestral scoring : piano/harpisc. Product format: Performance score, Anthology Binding: Stapled Pages / Format: 47 - 29,8 x 23,0 cm In the Baroque Era, the term “clavier” referred to all keyboard instruments: virginal, clavichord, harpsichord, fortepiano, and others. Bärenreiter’s “Baroque” Piano Album presents a representative selection of the major forms of Baroque clavier music from England , Italy , France and Germany .The anthology is divided into these four countries and illustrated with pictures of historical instruments to convey an impression of music making in the country concerned.The volume begins with the Italian composer Girolamo Frescobaldi, whose keyboard works exemplify the stylistic transition from the Renaissance to the Baroque.It then moves on to the English virginalists and the French clavecinistes and ends with the epochal of Johann Sebastian Bach.Apart from traits which prevailed in each of these countries, piano pupils will learn about t