Contents

Cover

Other Books by This Author

Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

          List of Illustrations

CHAPTER 1    A Gathering of Traditions

CHAPTER 2    The Piano Is Born

CHAPTER 3    The First Piano Superstar

CHAPTER 4    Piano Fever

CHAPTER 5    Performers on the Road

CHAPTER 6    The Four Sounds

CHAPTER 7    The Combustibles

          PART 1  The New Testament

          PART 2  Still Setting Blazes

CHAPTER 8    The Alchemists

          PART 1  Chemistry

          PART 2  Shock and Awe

CHAPTER 9    The Rhythmitizers

          PART 1  The American Adventure Begins

          PART 2  All That Jazz

          PART 3  Rock Solid or Teetering on the Brink

CHAPTER 10    The Melodists

          PART 1  Straight from the Heart

          PART 2  Breezy and Unflappable

CHAPTER 11    The Cultivated and the Vernacular

CHAPTER 12    The Russians Are Coming

CHAPTER 13    The Germans and Their Close Relations

CHAPTER 14    Keys to the World

CHAPTER 15    On the Cutting Edge

CHAPTER 16    Everything Old Is New Again

Appendix: Supplementary Notes

Contributor Biographies

Acknowledgments

Notes on Sources

Index