Piano Roles: Three Hundred Years of Life with the Piano
by James Parakilas
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Author: James ParakilasEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2000-02-09
ISBN: 0300080557
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Yale University Press
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Call this one an important lesson in the key of life. To celebrate the 300th birthday of everyone's fave instrument, author James Parakilas has written a book at once awesome and astounding, a stunning cultural history, told in vivid detail and ample anecdotes and stunning color photographs, of the musical and social roles that the piano has played in its long and amazing career. (It became so popular, for instance, as the result of not just ingenious mechanical design but also ingenious marketing.) An important book whether your tastes run to Beatles or Berlin, Liszt or Liberace. Tickle on!
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