Perspectives on Early Keyboard Music and Revival in the Twentieth Century

The twentieth-century revival of early music unfolded in two successive movements. The present volume is a collection reflecting the principal concerns of the second of those revivals, focusing on early keyboards, and beginning in the 1950s. The volume and its authors acknowledge Canadian harpsichordist Kenneth Gilbert (b.1931) as one of this revival’s leaders. The chapters cover historical performance practice, source studies, edition, theory and form, and instrument curating and building. Among their authors are prominent figures in performance, music history, editing, instrument building and restoration, and theory, some of whom engaged with the early keyboard revival as it was happening.