Essay on the true art of playing keyboard instruments, translated and edited by William J. Mitchell.
Material type: TextLanguage: English Original language: German Publication details: New York, W. W. Norton [1949]Edition: [1st ed.]Description: xiii, 449 p. port., music. 24 cmUniform titles:- Versuch über die wahre Art das Clavier zu spielen. English
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Bibliography: p. 446-449.
WAR, NEWBERY,
Part I : 1. Fingering -- 2. Embellishments : General ; The appoggiatura ; The trill ; The turn ; The mordent ; The compound appoggiatura ; The slide ; The snap ; The elaboration of fermate -- 3. Performance -- Part II : 4. Intervals and their signatures -- 5. Thorough bass : The triad (I) ; The triad (II) ; The chord of the sixth (I) ; The chord of the sixth (II) ; The diminished triad ; The augmented triad ; The six-four chord (I) ; The six-four chord (II) ; The four-three chord (I) ; The four-three chord (II) ; The six-five chord (I) ; The six-five chord (II) ; The chord of the second (I) ; The chord of the second (II) ; The five-two chord ; The five-four-two chord ; The three-two chord ; The chord of the seventh (I) ; The chord of the seventh (II) ; The seven-six chord ; The seven-four chord ; The chord of the major seventh (I) ; The chord of the major seventh (II) ; The chord of the ninth (I) ; The chord of the ninth (II) ; The nine-six chord ; The nine-four chord ; The nine-seven chord ; The five-four chord -- 6. Accompaniment : The unison ; One-part accompaniment for the left hand ; The organ point ; Appoggiaturas ; Syncopated notes ; The dotted compound appoggiatura ; The dotted slide ; Performance ; Closing cadences ; The fermata ; Some refinements of accompaniment ; Imitation ; Some precautions of accompaniment ; The need for figured basses ; Passing tones ; Chords that precede their bass notes ; The recitative ; Changing notes ; Bass themes -- 7. Improvisation : The free fantasia.