A History of the Harpsichord
KOTTICK Edward L.

1ere édition 2003

A History of the Harpsichord brings together for the first time more than 200 photographs, illustrations, and drawings of harpsichords in public museums and private collections throughout Europe the United States. Edward L. Kottick draws on his extensive technical knowledge and experience as a harpsichord builder to detail the changing design, structure, and acoustics of the instrument over six centuries.
List of Plates and Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Fourteenth and Fifteenth Centuries
1. From Psaltery and Monochord to Harpsichord and Virginal

The Sixteenth Century
2. The Emergence of the Northern Harpsichord
3. Antwerp Harpsichord Building between Karest and Ruckers
4. Early Italian Style

The Seventeenth Century
5. The Ruckers-Couchet Dynasty
6. Later Italian Style
7. Seventeenth-Century International Style
8. France
9. Germany and Austria
10. England

The Eighteenth Century
11. The Decline of the Italian Harpsichord
12. The Iberian Peninsula
13. Harpsichord building in France to the Revolution
14. The Low Countries in the Post-Ruckers Era
15. Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, and Switzerland
16. Great Britain and America

The Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
17. The Harpsichord Hibernates
18. The Harpsichord Revival from the Paris Exposition to World War II
19. The Modern Harpsichord
20. Into the future

Glossary
Bibliography