The Craft Of Piano Playing

Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 0810845911
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Craft of Piano Playing written by Alan Fraser and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2003 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting a new, comprehensive and highly original approach to piano technique with a fascinating series of exercises to help the reader put this approach into practice, this guide uses numerous musical examples and sketches to show how many common movement habits at the keyboard are counterproductive. Fraser provides a new way of manipulating the skeletal frame of the hand to produce astonishing sonic results from the instrument.

Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788683535842
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.43/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide to the Craft of Piano Playing written by Alan Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Seymour Fink
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780931340468
Total Pages : 196 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mastering Piano Technique written by Seymour Fink and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 1992 with total page 196 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (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.

Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9788683535897
Total Pages : 399 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Honing the Pianistic Self-image written by Alan Fraser and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Honing the pianistic self-image takes up where The Craft of Piano Playing left off in the development of Alan Fraser's comprehensive piano technique. Where Craft focused on the foundational security of the hand's innate structure and function, Honing shows you how to take that structure up into a new, sophisticated state--unstable equilibrium--to gain an even finer control over the colours and emotion you produce at the piano. --from publisher description.

Author : Robin Meloy Goldsby
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
ISBN 13 : 9780879308827
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Piano Girl written by Robin Meloy Goldsby and published by Hal Leonard Corporation. This book was released on 2006-05 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This entertaining memoir provides a glimpse into the comedies, tragedies, and mundane miracles witnessed from the business perspective of a world-traveling lounge musician.

Author : William Westney
Publisher : Amadeus Press
ISBN 13 : 1574673890
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Perfect Wrong Note written by William Westney and published by Amadeus Press. This book was released on 2006-06-01 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Amadeus). In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example, playing a wrong note can be constructive, useful, even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work, outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing, in Westney's view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can (and should) meet with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide, which brings artistic vitality, freedom, and confidence within everyone's reach.

Author : Richard P. Anderson
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 0810882051
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.58/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Pianist's Craft written by Richard P. Anderson and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 2012 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano. In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 19 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. This collection ranges in subject matter from Inge Rosar's meditation on playing Bach on the modern keyboard to Gary Amato's assessment of Haydn's sonatas, from Christie Skousen's review of tone production in Chopin to GwenolynMok's foray into recreating Ravel's works on an Erard piano, the same used by Ravel himself. Readers will find essays as well on Mozart's piano compositions, Beethoven's sonatas, the influence of Schubert's lieder on his piano works, and works by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bart k, Gershwin, and Crumb. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians--write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years. Each author addresses issues unique to the individual composer they have chosen to explore, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and preparing these great works. In The Pianist's Craft these great artists and teachers answer questions for readers that are otherwise only addressed in conferences, master classes, and private lessons. In this collection of essays, key points of information and instruction are offered with over 200 musical examples included as illustration. The Pianist's Craft is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music generally.

Author : Deborah Rambo Sinn
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199985081
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Playing Beyond the Notes written by Deborah Rambo Sinn and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-03-14 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : George Kochevitsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
ISBN 13 : 1457400332
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.39/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Art of Piano Playing written by George Kochevitsky and published by Alfred Music. This book was released on 1995-11-16 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: So many of the great pianists and teachers have come out of Poland and Russia (Rubinstein, Anton as well as Arthur, Leschetizky, Paderewski, the Lhevinnes, Gilels, Richter, and others), yet we know little about their methods of learning and teaching. George Kochevitsky in The Art of Piano Playing supplies some important sources of information previously unavailable in the United States. From these sources, tempered by this own thinking, Kochevitsky formulated a scientific approach that can solve most problems of piano playing and teaching. George Kochevitsky graduated in 1930 from Leningrad Conservatory and did post-graduate work at Moscow Conservatory. After coming to the U.S., he taught privately in New York City, gave a number of lectures, and wrote for various music periodicals.

Author : Alan Belkin
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300218990
Total Pages : 273 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Musical Composition written by Alan Belkin and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2018-06-19 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An invaluable introduction to the art and craft of musical composition from a distinguished teacher and composer This essential introduction to the art and craft of musical composition is designed to familiarize beginning composers with principles and techniques applicable to a broad range of musical styles, from concert pieces to film scores and video game music. The first of its kind to utilize a style-neutral approach, in addition to presenting the commonly known classical forms, this book offers invaluable general guidance on developing and connecting musical ideas, building to a climax, and other fundamental formal principles. It is designed for both classroom use and independent study.