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The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano

By Elizabeth Rusch
Illustrators Illustrated by Marjorie Priceman Edition

Hardcover edition

Publisher Simon & Schuster Imprint Atheneum ISBN

9781481444842

Awards and Honors NSTA Best STEM Books 2018<br> <i>CCBC Choices</i> 2018 Choice: The Arts New York Public Library Best Books for Kids 2017<br> <i>The Bulletin of the Center for Children’s Books</i> 2017 Blue Ribbons, Nonfiction<br>

The Music of Life: Bartolomeo Cristofori & the Invention of the Piano

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Bartolomeo Cristofori longs to create an instrument that can be played both soft and loud. Could hammers be the key to the new instrument? Time line of the life of Bartolomeo Cristofori and the piano. Information about the three surviving Cristofori pianos and about modern pianos. Classical and modern piano music suggestions. Notes about primary and secondary sources. Bibliography. Sources for quotations. Full-color illustrations rendered in gouache and ink.
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