Music for keyboard and consort

Performance rules for computer controlled performance of contemporary keyboard music

"Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Music for Solo Keyboard." Trevor Stephenson, Fortepiano

Keyboard Harmony: Some Applications of Computers in Music Education

It is not only verbal coincidence that suggests a connection between learning harmony and using computers. Harmony (unlike counterpoint) has been traditionally taught as a keyboard skill, in the old sense of the word (harpsichords, organs, pianos); nowadays the keyboards of computers can be used analogously to build connections between hands and ears. One factor which divides many a student of ...

1 The chamber music with keyboard in Mozart biography

The most perfunctory survey of the biographical literature devoted to Mozart – from the late eighteenth century to the present day – reveals an avid curiosity into the composer’s life history, perhaps a compulsive tendency to situate and contextualise his music. Although Mozart’s music might be clearly intelligible without knowledge of either his life or his eighteenth-century environment – twi...

The immediate effects of therapeutic keyboard music playing for finger training in adults undergoing hand rehabilitation

[Purpose] The purpose of this study was to examine the immediate effects of therapeutic keyboard music playing on the finger function of subjects' hands through measurements of the joint position error test, surface electromyography, probe reaction time, and writing time. [Subjects and Methods] Ten subjects were divided randomly into experimental and control groups. The experimental group used ...