Early Keyboard Bibliography

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Original Instruments & Makers
AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLICATION DETAILS	ISBN
-	Das Berliner »Bach-Cembalo« — Ein Mythos und seine Folgen	Staatliches Institut für Musikforschung 1995 DEUTSCH	3 922378 13 7
-	Colloqium — Restauratieproblemen van Antwerpse klavecimbels	Ruckers Genootschap/Frits Knuf 1971	-
-	John Joseph Merlin — The Ingenious Mechanick	Greater London Council 1985	7168 1582 6
-	Musik Instrumente aus dem Hessischen Landesmuseum in Darmstadt 16–19 Jahrhundert	Hessischen Landesmuseum Darmstadt 1980 DEUTSCH	-
-	Oude klavecimbels, hun bouw en restauratie • Old harpsichords, their construction and restoration	Haags gemeentemuseum 1977 ENGLISH & NEDERLANDS	-
Albarda, Jan	Wood, Wire And Quill — An Introduction To The Harpsichord	The Coach House Press 1968	-
Beurmann, Andreas	Harpsichords and More	Georg Olms Verlag 2012	978 3 487 14469 6
Beurmann, Andreas	Historische Tasteninstrumente	Prestel Verlag München 2000 DEUTSCH	3 7913 2309 1
Boalch, Donald H	Makers of the Harpsichord & Clavichord 1440–1840	Macmillan Press Limited 1956	-
Boalch, Donald H	Makers of the Harpsichord & Clavichord 1440–1840	Clarendon Press Oxford 1974	0 19 816123 9
Boalch, Donald H	Makers of the Harpsichord & Clavichord 1440–1840	Clarendon Press Oxford 1995	0 19 318429 X
Brauchli, Bernard	The Clavichord	Cambridge University Press 1998	0 521 63067 3
Brauchli, Bernard; Brauchli, Susan; Galazzo, Alberto [eds]	De Clavicordio	Insituto per i beni musicali in Piemonte 1994	-
Brauchli, Bernard; Brauchli, Susan; Galazzo, Alberto [eds]	De Clavicordio II	Musica Antica a Magano 1995	-
Brauchli, Bernard; Brauchli, Susan; Galazzo, Alberto [eds]	De Clavicordio III	Musica Antica a Magano 1997	88 900269 0 1
Brauchli, Bernard; Brauchli, Susan: Galazzo, Alberto[eds]	De Clavicordio IV	Musica Antica a Magano 2000	88 900269 1 X
Brauchli, Bernard; Galazzo, Alberto; Moody, Ivan [eds]	De Clavicordio V	Musica Antica a Magano 2002	88 900269 2 8
Brauchli, Bernard; Galazzo, Alberto; Moody, Ivan [eds]	De Clavicordio VI	Musica Antica a Magano 2004	88 900269 3 6
Brauchli, Bernard; Galazzo, Alberto; Wardman, Judith [eds]	De Clavicordio VII	Musica Antica a Magano 2006	88 900269 4 4
Brauchli, Bernard; Galazzo, Alberto; Wardman, Judith [eds]	De Clavicordio VIII	Musica Antica a Magano 2008	978 88 900269 5 9
Brinsmead, Edgar	History of the Pianoforte	Novello, Ewer & Co 1879	-
Clemencic, Réné	Old Musical Instruments	Weidenfeld & Nicolson 1968	297 766406 3
Clinkscale, Martha Novak	Makers of the Piano 1700-1820	Oxford University Press 1995	0 19 81632 1
Closson, Ernest	History of the Piano	Paul Elek 1976	0 236 17685 4
Cobbe, Alec & Nobbs, Christopher	Three Hundred Years of Composers' Instruments	Boydell Press 2014	978 18 438395 7 6
Dale, William	Tschudi: The Harpsichord Maker	Constable 1913	-
De Paepe, Timothy	Antwerp, City of Harpsichords	Museum Vleeshuis, Antwerpen 2018	978 9 0858676 5 4
Dirksen, Pieter [ed]	The Harpsichord and its repertoire — Proceedings of the International Harpsichord Symposium Utrecht 1990	STIMU Foundation for the Historical Performance Practice, Utrecht 1992	90 72786 03 3
Dufourcq, Norbert	Le Clavecin	Presses Universitaires de Paris 1967 FRANÇAIS	-
Gutmann, Veronika	Das Virginal des Andreas Ryff (1572)	Baumann & Cie, Banquiers DEUTSCH	-
Haake, Walter	Am Klavier — Werke Europäischer Maler aus sechs Jahrhunderten	Karl Robert Langewiesche NachfolgerHans Köster Königstein im Taunus 1968 DEUTSCH	-
Harding, Rosamond E M	The Piano-Forte — Its History traced to the Great Exhibition of 1851	Cambridge 1933	-
Helenius-Öberg, Eva	Svenskt Klavikordbygge 1720–1820	Almquist & Wiksell 1986 SVENSKA	91 22 00822 5
Hellwig, Friedemann	Atlas der Profile an Tasteninstrumenten vom 16. bis zum frühen 19. Jahrhundert	Verlag E Bochinsky 1985 DEUTSCH	3 923639 65 1
Henkel, Hubert	Kielinstrumente	VEB Deutscher Verlag für Musik Leipzig 1979 DEUTSCH	3 920 112 75 X
Hipkins, A J	A Description and History of the Pianoforte and of the Older Keyboard Stringed Instruments	Novello, Ewer & Co 1896	-
Hipkins, A J	Musical Instruments Historic, Rare and Unique	A and C Black 1945	-
Hirt, Franz Josef	Meisterwerke des Klavierbaus — Stringed Keyboard Instruments	Urs Graf Verlag 1981 DEUTSCH & ENGLISH	3 85951 135 1
Hirt, Franz Josef	Stringed Keyboard Instruments 1440–1880	Boston Book & Art Shop 1968	-
Hubbard, Frank	Three Centuries of Harpsichord Making	Harvard University Press 1978	0 674 88845 6
Huber, Alfons [ed]	Das Österreichische Cembalo — 600 Jahre Cembalobau in Österreich	Hans Schneider DEUTSCH & ENGLISH	3 7952 1039 9
Hummel, Jörg-Dieter	Friedrich Ring—Der vergessene Instrumentenbauer aus dem Elsaß und sein Clavicymbal von 1700	Verlag J P Himmer 1976 DEUTSCH	-
James, Philip	Early Keyboard Instruments from their beginnings to the year 1820	Frederick A Stokes NY 1930	-
Kjeldsberg, Peter Andreas	Piano i Norge	C Huitfeldt Forlag 1985 NORSK	82 7003 060 0
Kottick, Edward L	A History of the Harpsichord	Indiana University Press 2003	0 253 34166 3
Kottick, Edward L & Lucktenburg, G	Early Keyboard Instruments in European Museums	Indiana 1995	0 253 33239 7
Laborde, Jean-Baptiste de [Grannis, E Ann trans]	The Electric Harpsichord with a New Theory of the Mechanism and Phenomena of Electricity	Americole 1979	-
Lambrechts-Douillez, Dr J	Antwerpse Klavicimbels — Oude Muziek Herleeft	Actuele Onderwerpen 1970 NEDERLANDS	-
Lambrechts-Douillez, Jeannine	Hans Ruckers (1598): Sichter van een klavecimbelatelier van wereldformaat in Antwerpen • Founder of a harpsichord workshop of universal importance in Antwerp	Alamire 1998 NEDERLANDS, ENGLISH, FRANÇAIS & DEUTSCH	90 6853 136 0
MacSweeney, Pauline	Harpsichord Making in Ireland in the Eighteenth Century	Royal Irish Academy 1983	-
Martin, Darryl; Nex, Jenny; Whitehead, Lance; O’Brien, Grant	Aspects of Harpsichord Making in the British Isles	Pendragon Press 2009	978 1 57647 153 5
Mercier, Philippe [ed]	La facture de clavecin du XVe au XVIIIe siècle	Institut Supérieur d’Archéologie et d’Histoire de l’Art, Louvain-la-Neuve 1980 FRANÇAIS	-
Mercier-Ythier, Claude	Les Clavecins	éditions Vecteurs 1990 FRANÇAIS	2 87788 006 0
Montagu, Jeremy	The World of Baroque & Classical Musical Instruments	Jacaranda Press 1979	0 7016 1269 X
Montagu, Jeremy	The World of Medieval & Renaissance Musical Instruments	Ure Smith 1976	0 7254 0314 4
Montagu, Jeremy	The World of Romantic & Modern Musical Instruments	Jacaranda Press 1981	0 7016 1456 0
Morales, Luisa [ed]	Cinco Siglos de Música de Tecla Española • Five Centuries of Spanish Keyboard Music	Asociación Cultural LEAL ESPAÑOL & ENGLISH	978 84 611 8235
Moreno, Salvador	La Imagen de la Musica en México	Artes de México 1972 ESPAÑOL, ENGLISH, & FRANÇAIS	-
Mould, Charles; Mole, Peter & Strange, Thomas	Jacob Kirkman, Harpsichord Maker to Her Majesty	Lulu 2016	-
Neupert, Hanns	The Clavichord	Bärenreiter 1965	-
Neupert, Hanns	Vom Musikstab zum modernen Klavier	Das Musikinstrument, Frankfurt 1960 DEUTSCH	-
O’Brien, Grant	Ruckers — A harpsichord and virginal building tradition	Cambridge University Press 1990	0 521 36565 1
Pollens, Stewart	A History of Stringed Keyboard Instruments	Cambridge University Press 2022	978 1 108 42199 7
Pollerus, Heidelinde	Tasteninstrumente als kunsthistorische Objekte — Cembalo, Clavichord, Spinett, Virginal „Meine Seele hört im Sehen“	Leykam Verlag 2018 DEUTSCH	978 3 7011 0408 6
Pols, Andre M	De Ruckers en de Klavierbouw in Vlaanderen	Nederlandsche Boekhandel 1942 NEDERLANDS	-
Praetorius, Michael [Crookes, David Z (trans & ed)]	Syntagma Musicum II	Clarendon Press 1991	0 19 816260 X
Rieche, Christiane [ed]	Kielinstrumente aus der Werkstatt Ruckers	Händel-Haus Halle 1998 DEUTSCH	3 910019 12 9
Rindlisbacher, Otto	Das Klavier in der Schweiz: Klavichord • Spinett • Cembalo • Pianoforte — Geschichte des Schweizerischen Klavierbaus 1700–1900	Francke Verlag 1972 DEUTSCH	-
Ripin, Edwin M	The Instrument Catalogs of Leopoldo Franciolini	Joseph Boonin, Inc 1974	0 913574 09 0
Ripin, Edwin M [ed]	Keyboard Instruments — Studies in Keyboard Organology, 1500–1800	Dover 1977	0 486 23363 4
Ripin, Edwin M; Wraight, Denzil; O’Brien, G Grant; Ferguson, Howard; Caldwell, John; Schott, Howard; Dowd, William	The New Grove Early Keyboard Instruments	W W Norton & Company 1989	0 393 30515 5
Russell, Raymond	The Harpsichord and Clavichord	Faber & Faber 1979	0 571 04795 5
Ruth-Sommer, Hermann	Alte Musikinstrumente — Ein Leitfaden für Sammler	Richard Carl Schmidt & Co 1916 DEUTSCH	-
Sachs, Curt	Das Klavier	Verlag Julius Bard Berlin 1923 DEUTSCH	-
Samoyault-Verlet, Colombe	Les facteurs de clavecins Parisiens — Notices biographiques et documents (1550–1793)	Société FranÐaise de Musicologie 1966 FRANÇAIS	-
Schott, Howard [ed]	The Historical Harpsichord vol.I	Pedragon Press 1984	0 918728 29 0
Schott, Howard [ed]	The Historical Harpsichord vol.II	Pedragon Press 1987	0 918728 54 1
Schott, Howard [ed]	The Historical Harpsichord vol.III	Pedragon Press 1992	0 945193 26 2
Schott, Howard [ed]	The Historical Harpsichord vol.IV	Pedragon Press 2002	0 945193 75 0
Steiner, Thomas [ed]	Instruments à claviers — expressivité et flexibilité sonore • Keyboard Instruments — Flexibility of Sound and Expression	Peter Lang AG 2004 FRANÇAIS & ENGLISH	978 3 03910 244 0
Toffolo, Stefano	Antichi Strumeni Veneziani 1500–1800: Quattro Secoli di Liuteria e Cembalaria	Arsenale Editrice 1987 ITALIANO	88 7743 007 9
Tournay, Jean	Archives Dulcken vol I	Musée Instrumental Bruxelles	3 7952 0546 8
van Dijck, Lucas & Koopman, Ton	The Harpsichord in Dutch Art before 1800	De Walburg Pers 1987 ENGLISH & NEDERLANDS	90 6011 546 5
Vandervellen, Pascale	Clavecins, épinettes et Virginals • Klavecimbels, Spinetten en Virginalen • Harpsichords, Spinets and Virginals	Mardaga 2000 FRANÇAIS, NEDERLANDS & ENGLISH	2 87009 733 6
Vanderwellen, P [ed]	The Golden Age of Flemish Harpsichord Making — a Study of the MIM’s Ruckers Instruments	Musical Instruments Museum Brussels 2017	978 9 0901 0838 4
Wraight, Denzil	Vincentius and the earliest harpsichords	Early Music reprint 1986	-

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