Book Review

Mar. 2nd, 2015 08:59 pm
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The Cambridge Companion to the Piano
by David Rowland (Editor)

This book, like all the Cambridge companions, consists of a series of essays written by musicologists (primarily British ones). It is a very solid volume, covering the history of the piano, its acoustical properties, piano repertoire, and performance styles. I especially liked the discussions of performance style and repertoire, as those chapters brought together a lot of new and old information in a coherent and engaging form. The chapters on piano history were good, too, but did not include anything that I didn't already know. The only disappointment was the chapter on popular music and jazz. The author only gave a cursory view of the piano's role in popular music, and completely missed the subtleties and complexities of race in American popular music.
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