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This historical survey focuses on music for piano solo but also includes important compositions for piano duet and two pianos. Scholarly yet readable, it covers the entire repertoire from the Renaissance to the late 20th century and incorporates a bibliography of 1,100 sources for further study.

It will help make decisions about what historical, standard rep, and modern music is appropriate for any pianist or teacher to seek out, for themslves, their students and their audience.
The section on 20th century composition helps wade through the backwaters of modern music to find the pieces that have come to regarded as modern standard repertoire.

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Keywords: piano history;piano music;kirby;piano
File Size: 15 MBytes