Scarecrow Press
Pages: 80
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Trim: 8½ x 11
978-0-929847-08-5 • Paperback • December 2001 • $33.00 • (£25.00)
Cynthia Adams Hoover is Curator of Musical Instruments at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. She has studied the changing intersections of technology, culture, and commerce of the piano's 300-year history and is co-editor with Edwin M. Good of the annotated diary of William Steinway, the piano company's financial wizard in the 19th century.
Patrick Rucker was Project Director and Co-curator of PIANO 300. As a pianist he has presented the 20th-century premieres of many works by Franz Liszt and has written widely on the composer.
Edwin M. Good is author of Giraffes, Black Dragons, and Other Pianos (Stanford University Press), a technological history of the piano. He is co-editor with Cynthia Adams Hoover of the diary of William Steinway and lives in Eugene, Oregon, where he continues his research and plays the piano in chamber music.
Chapter 1 Lenders to the Exhibition
Chapter 2 Acknowledgments
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Invention
Chapter 5 Early Stages: The Amateur Player
Chapter 6 Early Stages: The Rise of the Public Performer
Chapter 7 The Romantic Superstar
Chapter 8 Pianos at Home: The Piano Girls
Chapter 9 Americans Take the Lead
Chapter 10 Taking Piano
Chapter 11 Pianos for All
Chapter 12 Music Trades
Chapter 13 The African American Legacy
Chapter 14 Tin Pan Alley
Chapter 15 Pianos without Pianists
Chapter 16 The Asian Experience
Chapter 17 Electrifying
Chapter 18 Mass Audiences
Chapter 19 Appendix: Instruments Displayed in Piano 300
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