The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling

Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253066751
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 321

Book Description
" . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.

The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering

Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253053145
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 244

Book Description
The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages. Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions, he strives to help the advanced pianist think through the composer's musical intent and the actual performance tempo and dynamics when selecting the fingering. Banowetz also includes valuable contributions by Philip Fowke, who examines redistributions by Benno Moiseiwitsch in Rachmaninoff's compositions, and Nancy Lee Harper, who explores the often very different approaches to fingering found in keyboard music of the Baroque era. The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering will be useful to the advanced pianist and to instructors looking to guide students in improving this important art.

The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling

Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 025306676X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 328

Pedaling

Author: Peter Coraggio
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780849762154
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description

The Art of Piano Pedaling

Author: Anton Rubinstein
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486318958
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 98

Book Description
Rubinstein's pedaling technique is explored using examples from a vast repertoire of works he performed in 1885-6. Carreño's observations explore her sensitivity made possible through combinations of touch and pedal.

The Art of Pedaling

Author: Heinrich Gebhard
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486488276
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 66

Book Description
Written by a renowned musician who served as a mentor to Leonard Bernstein, this classic guide explains pedaling's most important uses and assists in the development of instincts for musical and artistic pedaling.

Playing Beyond the Notes

Author: Deborah Rambo Sinn
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199985081
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 160

Book Description
Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the complex concepts of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos. As a whole, the book helps pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and gives teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is illustrated with over 200 repertoire excerpts and supplemented by a companion website with over 100 audio recordings. Playing Beyond the Notes is essential reading for all performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students.

Notes from the Pianist's Bench

Author: Boris Berman
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 0300221525
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike.

Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature

Author: Jane Magrath
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 9781457438974
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 588

Book Description
This reference book is an invaluable resource for teachers, students and performers for evaluating and selecting piano solo literature. Concise and thoroughly researched, thousands of works, from the Baroque through the Contemporary periods, have been graded and evaluated in detail. Includes an alphabetical list of composers, explanations of works and much more.

Menahem Pressler

Author: William Brown
Publisher: Indiana University Press
ISBN: 0253013526
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 329

Book Description
As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Brown traces the master's pianistic development through Rudiakov, Kestenberg, Vengerova, Casadesus, Petri, and Steuermann, blending techniques and traditions derived from Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and J. S. Bach. Brown presents Pressler's approach to performance and teaching, including technical exercises, principles of relaxation and total body involvement, and images to guide the pianist's creativity toward expressive interpretation. Insights from the author's own lessons, interviews with Pressler, and recollections of more than 100 Pressler students from the past 50 years are gathered in this text. Measure-by-measure lessons on 23 piano masterworks by, among others, Bach, Bartók, Debussy, and Ravel as well as transcriptions of Pressler's fingerings, hand redistributions, practicing guidelines, musical scores, and master class performances are included.