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JCPP/Hurford/4/2/18
Title
Anthology of Early Keyboard Methods
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- 1981 (Creation)
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5 items, paper.
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Anthology of Early Keyboard Methods. Edited and translated by Barbara Sachs and Barry Ife.
Published by Gamut Publications, Cambridge, UK.
There is also:
- A photocopy of the entry "Fingering. I, 2: Keyboard, to c.1650" of the New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, pp. 567-575.
- A manuscript written in pencil by Peter Hurford on "Early Fingerings".
- A photocopy of an autograph of a Praeludium pro organo by J. S. Bach.
- A photocopy of an article Trends in Performance of Baroque Music" by Isolde Ahlgrimm, translated by Howard Schott; published in The Diapason (An International Monthly Devoted to the Organ, Harpsichord and Church Music), Vol. 73, No. 4 (April 1982).
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- English
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Note
The Anthology of Early Keyboard Methods is dedicated to Peter Hurford and it can be read: To Peter who has both gravity and charm. With love from the typesetter.
Note
The New Grove article has some comments written in paper on the back about books on fingering.
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The article published in The Diapason contains some pencil annotations by Peter Hurford.