A History of the Harpsichord

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 Appendix: Exploded views Index