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David R. M. Irving, Iberian keyboard music, Early Music, Volume 45, Issue 1, February 2017, Pages 156–159, https://doi.org/10.1093/em/cax017
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Spanish and Portuguese keyboard works from the 16th to 19th centuries form a repertory that shares certain broad characteristics with pan-European practices as well as exhibiting some unique features. While the sonata became a popular genre in Iberia during the 18th and 19th centuries, early keyboard music of the region also boasts the distinctive genre known as tiento, often played on the organ, as well as a wealth of intabulations of vocal music, often performed on plucked keyboard instruments. In terms of instrument design, Iberian organs differ significantly from other European instruments, and usually have a single keyboard split at middle C and different registrations possible for each half. While Iberian harpsichords, clavichords and fortepianos have a variable rate of survival, many Iberian pipe organs are preserved in religious institutions in Spain and Portugal, as well as in the vast territories of their former colonial empires. This review examines a range of recent recordings of Iberian keyboard works, dating from the 16th to 19th centuries, some of which contain performances on unique historical instruments.