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Alfred A. Knopf and Harold Ober Associates Incorporated: Excerpts from “Juke Box Love Song” from The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, edited by Arnold Rampersad with David Roessel, Associate Editor, copyright © 1994 by the Estate of Langston Hughes. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random house, Inc., and Harold Ober Associates Incorporated.

The Colorado College Music Press: Excerpts from foreword by John Cage, included in The Well-Prepared Piano by Richard Bunger (Colorado Springs, CO: The Colorado College Music Press, 1973).
Reprinted by permission of The Colorado College Music Press.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Isacoff, Stuart.
A natural history of the piano: the instrument, the music, the musicians—from Mozart to modern jazz, and everything in between/ Stuart Isacoff.
p.    cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
eISBN: 978-0-307-70142-8
1.  Piano—History.    2.  Piano music—History and criticism.    3.  Pianists.    I.  Title
ML650.I83 2011
786.209—dc22                2011011557

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