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Ralph Kirkpatrick: A Bibliography and Discography

Publications about Ralph Kirkpatrick

  • Bender, William. “A harpsichord in every home. ” New York Herald Tribune (Oct. 27, 1963): 34.
  • Black, Gavin. “On Teaching.” The Diapason (June, 2011): 13-14.
  • Brodeur, Michael Andor. "Finding order (and a hometown connection) in a lost recording of a Bach masterwork." Washington Post  (January 8, 2022).  view 
  • Buckley, William F. “Queen of all Instruments.” New York Times (2 Jan. 1983): SM18+. Proquest Historical Papers The New York Times. Online. 25 Jul. 2006.
  • Downes, Edward. “Hammers and Quills.” New York Times (2 Dec. 1962): 189. Proquest Historical Papers The New York Times. Online. 25 Jul. 2006.
  • Dyer, Richard. “A Master Returns to the Stage.” Boston Globe (May 24, 1981): A1, 12.
  • Evarts, John. “Visiting American Artists.” Information Bulletin ( Magazine of the U.S Military Government in Germany). 142 (August 24, 1948): 12-14, 20.
  • Evett, R. “Scarlatti redivivus.” New Republic , 129 (Dec. 28, 1953): 20-1.
  • Fabian Dorottya. “Bach performance practice in the twentieth century: recordings, reviews and reception.” pp. 179-189. In Bach Studies from Dublin. Selected papers presented at the ninth biennial conference on Baroque music, held at Trinity College Dublin from 12th to 16th July 2000. Irish Musical Studies 8. Edited by Anne Leahy & Yo Tomita. Dublin , Four Courts Press, 2004.
  • Field, Richard S. and Lora S. Urbanelli. Ralph Kirkpatrick In Memoriam: A Musician’s Collection of Prints and Drawings. Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,Conn.: The Gallery, 1985. view
  • Fisk, Eliot. “Ralphination: A Short Tribute to Ralph Kirkpatrick.” view
  • “Harpsichordists Out of Tune.” Time , 49 (Feb. 3, 1947): 46.
  • Helm, E. “Life and Times of Ralph Kirkpatrick.” Musical America 83 (Jan. 1963): 34+. view
  • Heyder, Bernd. “Ralph Kirkpatrick: Wanderer Zwischen den Klangwelten.” Concerto 240 (Oct./ Nov./ Dec. 2011):21–24.
  • Heylbut, R. “The Harpsichord Today.” Etude 72 (Aug. 1954): 9+.
  • Ingram, John. “Collecting Colonial Music Material.” A.B. Bookman’s Weekly 76.24 (Dec. 9, 1985): 4315-19.
  • Kipnis, Igor. “Kirkpatrick’s Other Instrument.” The Music Magazine and Musical Courier 164 (May 1962): 16-17.
  • Lo, Chau-Yee. Endangered Species. The Harpsichord and its New Repertoire since 1960 . Dissertation. University of Leeds, July 2004.
  • Mcmullen R. “Notes from our Correspondents. Paris.” High Fidelity Magazine 15 (Sept. 1965): 20.
  • Mehegan, David. “Hub of the Harpsichord Industry. Reinventing a classic in Boston.” Boston Globe Magazine (Nov. 28, 1982): 8+.
  • Morrow, Edward A. “Kirkpatrick Music Wins Soviet Praise.” New York Times , 26 Jul. 1948: 15. Papers The Proquest Historical New York Times. Online. 25 Jul. 2006.
  • Muhlbock, Albert. Recovering the Clavichord for the Modern Pianist. Dissertation. University of Cincinnati. 2012.
  • “On Concert Halls: Conversations with Ralph Kirkpatrick.” Perspecta 17 (1983): 92-9.
  • Palmer, Larry. Harpsichord in America : A twentieth-century revival. Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1989.
  • Palmer, Larry. “Harpsichord Playing in America “After” Landowska.” The Diapason 102 (June 2011): 19-21.
  • “Ralph Kirkpatrick: European Journal.” Musical America (Nov. 1985): 33-37.
  • Rosenfeld, P. “Introduction to Bach.” New Republic 79 (June 20, 1934): 155-6.
  • Ruff, Willie. “A Musician’s Legacy: Ralph Kirkpatrick Remembered.” Yale Alumni Review (April, 1985): 20-23.
  • Saal, H. “K at the Keyboard.” Newsweek 74 (Nov. 24, 1969): 133.
  • Sacks, Peter. “Kirkpatrick Playing Bach.” (Poem). New Yorker (Feb. 4, 1980): 40.
  • Salemi, R. “Ricordo di Ralph Kirkpatrick.” Rassegna Musicale Curci 39.2 (1986): 15-16.
  • “Scarlatti the Unknown.” Newsweek 42 ( Dec. 31, 1953): 84.
  • Sherman, Robert. “A Harpsichordist Comes Home to Yale.” New York Times 25 Sept. 1977: 554. Proquest Historical Papers The New York Times. Online. 25 Jul. 2006.
  • Stella, Frank. “Stella Sounds: The Scarlatti K. Series.” Artwork by abstract artist Frank Stella. view
  • Thomson, John M. “Crumhorns away! Some aspects of the early music revival.” Canzona: The official yearbook of the Composers Association of New Zealand 3.9 (Oct. 1981): 13-15.
  • Thorpe, Day. "We Spent the Summer with Mr. Bach." High Fidelity: 3.1 (March-April, 1953): 27-31,118.
  • Turner, John William. Schenkerian Analysis and the Performance of Large-Scale Structure. Dissertation. University of North Carolina, Greensboro.  2003.
  • Varga, Balint Andras. Muzsikusportrek. Budapest : Zenemu, 1979.
  • Varga, Balint Andras. From Boulanger to Stockhausen: Interviews and a Memoir. Rochester, NY: University of Rochester Press, 2013.
  • Watson, John R. Changing Keys: Keyboard Instruments for America 1700-1830. Lanham; Scarecrow, 2013.
  • Wolf, Peter. "Reminiscences of Three Performers and an Instrument Maker." Bach 48/49, 2/1 (January 2018), 21-43.
  • Wood, Jessica. Keys to the Past: Building harpsichords and feeling history in the postwar United States. Proquest Dissertations Publishing, 2010. 
  • BBC3. " Music Matters. Ralph Kirkpatrick." Broadcast Jan. 31, 2015.http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b050sglz

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