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The Pianist's Craft
Mastering the Works of Great Composers
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2011
Summary
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, Bartók, 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.
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Copyright year
2011
ISBN-Print
978-0-8108-8205-8
ISBN-Online
978-0-8108-8206-5
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
292
Product type
Edited Book
Table of contents
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access
Chapter 01. Performing Scarlatti No access Pages 1 - 12
Chapter 02. Problems and Chance No access Pages 13 - 28
Chapter 03. A Pianist’s Journey to the Classic Sonata No access Pages 29 - 40
Chapter 04. Performing Mozart on a Modern Piano No access Pages 41 - 47
Chapter 05. Genre References in Beethoven Sonatas No access Pages 48 - 65
Chapter 06. Franz Schubert No access Pages 66 - 84
Chapter 07. Schumann and Butterflies No access Pages 85 - 94
Chapter 08. Teaching Tone, Technique, and Phrasing in the Piano Works of Chopin No access Pages 95 - 105
Chapter 09. Color and Gesture in the Piano Music of Franz Liszt No access Pages 106 - 117
Chapter 10. Interpreting Brahms No access Pages 118 - 131
Chapter 11. Reflections on Ravel No access Pages 132 - 144
Chapter 12. Imagination in the Piano Works of Debussy No access Pages 145 - 155
Chapter 13. Some Suggestions for Preparing and Playing Rachmaninoff No access Pages 156 - 168
Chapter 14. Finding the Essence of Late Scriabin in His Tenth Sonata No access Pages 169 - 188
Chapter 15. Sergei Prokofiev No access Pages 189 - 200
Chapter 16. The Piano Music of Dmitri Shostakovich No access Pages 201 - 219
Chapter 17. Playing and Teaching the Piano Music of Béla Bartók No access Pages 220 - 242
Chapter 18. George Gershwin No access Pages 243 - 262
Chapter 19. Exploring Sonority and Drama Inside the Instrument No access Pages 263 - 286
Index No access Pages 287 - 290
About the Editor No access Pages 291 - 292
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