Toy pianos, poor tools: virtuosity and imagination in a limited context

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Toy pianos, poor tools: virtuosity and imagination in a limited context

The toy piano is fast becoming a concert instrument in its own right, with its own (growing) body of repertoire that has moved well beyond John Cage’s 1948 classic Suite for Toy Piano. There are dedicated musicians specialising in toy piano performance all over the world, and numerous composers prod...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Pestova, Xenia
Format:	Article
Published:	Cambridge University Press 2017
Online Access:	https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/48182/

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