Scenes in the life of the piano (Small beginnings ; The piano goes public ; The square and the upright ; The grand piano ; The piano as object ; The piano and big business ; Entertainments and entertainers ; Home, sweet home: the piano and popular music ; From piano player to player piano ; His Master's voice ; At the movies; The gadgeteers) -- Musical ideas : means and expression (Accompaniments ; Variation forms ; Dance forms and the suite ; Popular and national dance forms ; Free forms ; The principles of sonata form ; The sonata: forms and patterns ; The sonata: history and repertoire ; The concerto ; The forms of Romanticism ; Romanticism and literature ; National music ; Blues, boogie and the birth of jazz; Modernism and modernists ; The piano in chamber music).
Cont.: The great composers (Bach, Handel and Scarlatti ; Haydn ; Mozart ; Beethoven ; Schubert ; Mendelssohn ; Schumann ; Chopin ; Liszt ; Brahms ; A trio of Russians: Tchaikovsky, Scriabin and Rachmaninov ; Debussy ; Ravel ; Two Amricans: Ives and Gershwin) -- The performers -- Who else is who?
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