The History of Keyboard Music to 1700

Published

1979

Publisher

Indiana University Press

ISBN-13

9780253211415

ISBN-10

0253211417

Pages

878

Language

English

This classic work is a meticulous chronological survey of music for the keyboard from the earliest extant manuscripts of the 14th century to the end of the 17th. Apel traces the evolution of keyboard instruments, genres, national schools and styles (from Poland to Portugal), and the oeuvre of many composers. A monument of scholarship, this indispensable reference work is also remarkably user-friendly and engagingly written throughout.