Contents of the book

• The Revival of Baroque Keyboard Music
• Different Approaches to Early Music Performance
• The Evolution of Keyboard Instruments and Ranges
• Comparison between Harpsichord and Piano
• Baroque Articulation
• Basics on Essential Ornaments
• Performing the Notes Inégales
• Inégales and Triplets in J.S. Bach and Rameau
• Tempi: Authenticity and Rubato
• Tempi in Masterpieces by Different Composers
• Performance of French Baroque Dances
• Baroque Dynamics on the Modern Piano
• Piano Dynamics for Important Baroque Harpsichord Works
• How composers moved from the harpsichord to the piano
• Literature Cited

Some important features of the book

• Evolution of Keyboard Instruments: main models and keyboard ranges (26 pages)
• A concise account of articulation in baroque keyboard music; sources and implications (10 pages)
• Ornaments: presentation, full Table and discussion of on-the-beat vs pre-beat (15 pages)
• A detailed treatment of the performance of French notes inégales (20 pages)
• The relationship between inégales, triplets and overdotting in Rameau and J.S. Bach (7 pages)
• The performance of préludes non mesurés; a general analysis of rubato (6 pages)
• A detailed analysis of Baroque French dances: rhythms, tempi and inégales (18 pages)
• Finding the authentic tempo, exemplified in pieces by J.S. Bach, D. Scarlatti and Daquin (10 pages)
• A full treatment of Baroque keyboard dynamics, applied to the works of important Baroque composers (31 pages)
• The transition between the harpsichord era and the fortepiano era (4 pages)