Performance Practices in Classic Piano Music: Their Principles and Applications (Music Scholarship and Performance)

516 pp., xxviii. Stated: "First Midland Book Edition 1991"; this copy with '2' in number line. Five Plates and three Charts. Following the Preface by Malcolm Bilson; Preface: About Performance Practices; Acknowledgments; Sources of Figures; Introduction: Using This Book; and Abbreviations, Contents divided into 11 Sections: (I) "Background for the Study"; (II) "The Fortepiano circa 1780-1820"; (III) "Dynamics and Accentuations"; (IV) "Use of the Pedals"; (V) "Articulation and Touch"; (VI) "Historical Technique and Fingering"; (VII) "Ornaments"; (vIII) " ' Mixed Meters ' and Dotted Rhythms"; (X+IX) "Choice of Tempo"; (X) "Flexibility of Rhythm and Tempo"; (XI) "Performing Beethoven's Bagatelle Op. 126, No. 5"; Notes, pp. 401-486; Selected Bibliography, pp. 487-496; Index, pp. 497-516.// Glossy orange and black dustewrapper not price-clipped (no price) with Author name in small orange letters over black background across toop front cover, above part of Title lettering in white letters over black background, ' Piano Music ' in black letters over orange background for black and white photo-illustration of a Fortepiano (1819) by Matthaus Andreas Stein, partially superimposed upon the orange background shared with part of the Title lettering. Small wear at top spine and a 1/4" tear down from top edge at 2" away from top right spine corner; 1/8" tear at lower left spine corner (tears now backed with Archival tape); spine sunned to a light yellow, with 5/8" strip of similar sunning just below the black band across top rear cover (wrap-around from front cover) and for 1 1/2", diminishingly, from black band down left side rear cover to lower edge (evidently placed on the shelf adjacent to a smaller book): Describes worse than it is, but there you have it. NOW in Brodart mylar which graciously forgives trespasses.// Book itself: black cloth with brilliant gilt lettering on spine, in As New condition (dustwrapper did its job), little read, if at all, condition: Tight binding (NO cracks); sharp corners (NO bumps or curls); NO rubbing wear; NO remainder marks. Clean text. // Inscribed in cursive and dated by Author on lower third Title page, below her printed name, with kind expression, in five lines, of gratitude to dedicatee. // Arguably Gift-Giving condition or you may need new friends. (Postage to be determined at time of Order: will not fit USPS Priority Mail envelope for Domestic or International use.).…