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1. Four Decades after French Harpsichord Music of the Seventeenth Century: Newly Discovered Sources Bruce Gustafson 2. The Harpsichord Class at the Paris Conservatoire: An Administrative History Olivier Baumont 3. The Organ of the German Church in Stockholm: To Övertorneå and Hietaniemi, and Back Again Hans-Ola Ericsson and Lena Weman 4. The Saga of the 1753 Organ of the Cathedral of Quebec: Its Installation, Destruction, and Rebirth Élisabeth Gallat-Morin 5. The Challenges of Caring for a Playing Collection Mimi S. Waitzman 6. Hubert Bédard (1933–89): A Visionary of the Early Keyboard Movement Rachelle Taylor 7. Some Examples of Transformative Imitation in Late Seventeenth-Century French Organ Music David Ponsford 8. The Thirteen Non-Liturgical Fugues à 4 in 'Le Livre d’orgue de Montréal' Walter Kurt Kreyszig 9. Frescobaldi’s Contrapuntal "Audacities": Structures, Processes, and Affetti in Keyboard Fantasia IX Massimiliano Guido 10. Chambonnières’s Pieces de claveß in of 1670 and the Preservation of a Performing Style Ronald Broude 11. The New Frescobaldi Edition Christopher Stembridge 12. The Soloist, seconda pratica, and the Madrigal as a Template for the New Toccata Hank Knox and Rachelle Taylor 13. Kenneth Gilbert’s Recording Legacy Antonio Lechasseur
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Rachelle Taylor leads an international performing career and has recorded several albums of late Renaissance keyboard music. She is Adjunct Professor of Performance at McGill University and a music historian and archivist at Library and Archives Canada. Her research has been published in Belgium, Canada and the United Kingdom. She is co-editor of Networks of Music and Culture in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries (2013).
Hank Knox is hailed internationally for his "colorful, kinetic performances" (All Music Guide) which "abound in vitality" (Early Music America), and performs around the globe. He studied harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and is a founding member of Montreal’s Arion Baroque Orchestra. He is professor of harpsichord and continuo at the Schulich School of Music of McGill University. He was awarded the Thomas Binkley prize for an outstanding university collegium director by Early Music America in 2008.
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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 re
