Note 165 — Chapter XI
Reading edition
A comprehensive and invaluable description of the works and style of Couperin and Rameau may be found in the History of the Pianoforte and its Players by Oscar Bie. For an early example of what is now called "poetic atmosphere" everyone should know Couperin's piece Les Barricades Mystérieuses which is more suggestive when played on the claveçin with its delicate tone.