Mastering Piano Technique

Author: Seymour Fink
Publisher: Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN: 9780931340468
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 196

Book Description
(Amadeus). This holistic approach to the keyboard, based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and musical purpose, is an invaluable resource for pianists and teachers. Professor Fink explains his ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises that set the pianist free to express the most profound musical ideas. HARDCOVER.

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.

What Every Pianist Needs to Know about the Body

Author: Thomas Carson Mark
Publisher: GIA Publications
ISBN: 9781579992064
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 182

Book Description
Describes and demonstrates the places of balance, standing and sitting in balance, structure, movement of the hands and arms, and other topics.

The art of piano fingering

Author: Penelope Roskell
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780952837503
Category : Piano
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description

The Art of Learning

Author: Josh Waitzkin
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0743277465
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 291

Book Description
An eight-time national chess champion and world champion martial artist shares the lessons he has learned from two very different competitive arenas, identifying key principles about learning and performance that readers can apply to their life goals. Reprint. 35,000 first printing.

Professional Piano Teaching, Volume 2

Author: Jeanine M. Jacobson
Publisher: Alfred Music
ISBN: 1470627787
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 455

Book Description
This second volume of Professional Piano Teaching is designed to serve as a basic text for a second-semester or upper-division piano pedagogy course. It provides an overview of learning principles and a thorough approach to essential aspects of teaching intermediate to advanced students. Special features include discussions on how to teach, not just what to teach; numerous musical examples; chapter summaries; and suggested projects for new and experienced teachers. Topics: * teaching students beyond the elementary levels * an overview of learning processes and learning theories * teaching transfer students * preparing students for college piano major auditions * teaching rhythm, reading, technique, and musicality * researching, evaluating, selecting, and presenting intermediate and advanced repertoire * developing stylistic interpretation of repertoire from each musical period * developing expressive and artistic interpretation and performance * motivating students and providing instruction in effective practice * teaching memorization and performance skills

Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas

Author: Robert Taub
Publisher: Amadeus
ISBN: 9781574671780
Category : Sonatas (Piano)
Languages : en
Pages : 0

Book Description
Acclaimed pianist Robert Taub offers the insights of a passionate musician who performs all 32 of Beethoven's well-loved piano sonatas in concert worldwide bringing a fresh perspective on Beethoven as the ÊNew York TimesÊ put it. In this book he shares his intimate understanding of these works with listeners and players alike.

Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists

Author: Lora Deahl
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190850183
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 305

Book Description
Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists brings together information from biomechanics, ergonomics, physics, anatomy, medicine, and piano pedagogy to focus on the subject of small-handedness. The first comprehensive study of its kind, the book opens with an overview of historical, anatomical, and pedagogical perspectives and redresses long-held biases concerning those who struggle at the piano because of issues with hand size. A discussion of work efficiency, the human anatomy, and the constraints of physics serves as the theoretical basis for a focused analysis of healthy movement and piano technique as they relate to small-handedness. Separate chapters deal with specific alternative approaches: redistribution, refingering, strategies to maximize reach and power, and musical solutions for technical problems. Richly illustrated with hundreds of examples from a wide range of piano repertoire, the book is an incomparable resource for piano teachers and students, written in language that is accessible to a broad audience. It balances scholastic rigor with practical experience in the field to demonstrate that the unique physical and musical needs of the small-handed can be addressed in sensitive and appropriate ways.

Fundamentals of Piano Practice

Author: Chuan C. Chang
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781523287222
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 272

Book Description
This is the first book that teaches piano practice methods systematically, based on mylifetime of research, and containing the teachings of Combe, material from over 50 pianobooks, hundreds of articles, and decades of internet research and discussions with teachersand pianists. Genius skills are identified and shown to be teachable; learning piano can raiseor lower your IQ. Past widely taught methods based on false assumptions are exposed;substituting them with efficient practice methods allows students to learn piano and obtainthe necessary education to navigate in today's world and even have a second career. See http://www.pianopractice.org/

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art

Author: Sanne Krogh Groth
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 1501338803
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 581

Book Description
The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sound Art explores and delineates what Sound Art is in the 21st century. Sound artworks today embody the contemporary and transcultural trends towards the post-apocalyptic, a wide sensorial spectrum of sonic imaginaries as well as the decolonization and deinstitutionalization around the making of sound. Within the areas of musicology, art history, and, later, sound studies, Sound Art has evolved at least since the 1980s into a turbulant field of academic critique and aesthetic analysis. Summoning artists, researchers, curators, and critics, this volume takes note of and reflects the most recent shifts and drifts in Sound Art--rooted in sonic histories and implying future trajectories.