A History of the Harpsichord

Contents

• List of Plates and Illustrations
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
• 1. From Psaltery and Monochord to Harpsichord and Virginal
• The Sixteenth Century
• 2. The Emergence of the Northern Harpsichord
• 3. Antwerp Harpsichord Building between Karest and Ruckers
• 4. Early Italian Style
• The Seventeenth Century
• 5. The Ruckers-Couchet Dynasty
• 6. Later Italian Style
• 7. Seventeenth-Century International Style
• 8. France
• 9. Germany and Austria
• 10. England
• The Eighteenth Century
• 11. The Decline of the Italian Harpsichord
• 12. The Iberian Peninsula
• 13. Harpsichord building in France to the Revolution
• 14. The Low Countries in the Post-Ruckers Era
• 15. Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, and Switzerland
• 16. Great Britain and America
• The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
• 17. The Harpsichord Hibernates
• 18. The Harpsichord Revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II
• 19. The Modern Harpsichord
• 20. Into the future
• Glossary
• Bibliography
• Appendix: Exploded views
• Index