The English wing spinet of the 17th and 18th centuries: with special reference to the extant Haward spinets indtroducing newly discovered evidence for Samuel Pepys' Haward spinet and Queen Anne's Haward spinet
The wing spinet, evidently introduced to England in 1663 by its acknowledged inventor, Gerolamo Zenti, displaced the virginal in the 1680s and was, in turn, displaced by the square piano a century later. A breakdown of the instrument’s form into four chronological groups is proposed. Prior literatur...
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| Language: | English |
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2021
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| Online Access: | https://repository.londonmet.ac.uk/9478/1/spinet%20dissertation%20scan.pdf |