The Pianoforte Sonata

This little volume is entitled "The Pianoforte Sonata: its Origin and Development". Some of the early sonatas mentioned in it were, however, written for instruments of the jack or tangent kind. The term "Piano e Forte" is, however, to be found in letters of a musical instrument maker named Paliarino, written, as we learn from the valuable article "Pianoforte".