Search for dissertations about: "Prellzungenmechanik"

Found 1 swedish dissertation containing the word Prellzungenmechanik.

2. 1. Johann Andreas Stein’s 1781 Claviorganum and the Construction of Art in Eighteenth-Century Augsburg

   Author : Robin Blanton; Göteborgs universitet; []
   Keywords : HUMANIORA; HUMANITIES; Patrick Alströmer; Augsburg; claviorgan; Carl Philip Emanuel Bach; Empfindsamkeit; fortepiano; Gothenburg; music aesthetics; Prellzungenmechanik; public sphere; Christian Friedrich Daniel Schubart; Johann Andreas Stein; Paul von Stetten the Younger; 18 century;

   Abstract : The latter half of the eighteenth century saw the piano’s rise in popularity in Europe, and alongside it many one-of-a-kind keyboard instruments that used the new technology of the hammer action in innovative ways. Recent scholarship revises the older view of these inventions as bizarre “dead ends,” suggesting that like the piano, they filled contemporary musical needs. READ MORE