Harvard Dictionary of Music
Harvard Dictionary of Music

Author: Willi Apel

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 1969

Total Pages: 968

ISBN-13: 9780674375017

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Contains nearly 1000 pages of precise and accessible information on all musical subjects.

Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau
Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau

Author: Victoria A. von Arx

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-05-28

Total Pages: 501

ISBN-13: 0199366748

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Piano Lessons with Claudio Arrau provides an insider's view of the art of piano performance as exemplified by one of the great artists of the twentieth century. Chilean pianist Claudio Arrau devoted his life to the piano and its music. As a child prodigy, he gained national recognition from government officials in Chile, including President Pedro Montt, who funded Arrau's education in Germany. Arrau studied in Berlin with Martin Krause, a pupil of Franz Liszt, and later immigrated to New York City where he taught and mentored a sizeable group of pupils while at the same time managing an international performing career. Arrau's profound musical insight and unique style of teaching inspired his pupils and motivated them to teach his principles to the next generation of students. This in-depth study of Arrau's principles and philosophy of technique and performance draws on information from published interviews with Arrau, from numerous interviews with Arrau's pupils, and from the author's experience in studying piano with two of them. Transcripts of actual lessons given by Arrau and preserved on tape present in his own words a detailed account of his technical and interpretive ideas about five major works of the piano repertory. References to over one hundred examples from Arrau's filmed recordings enable readers to observe the elements of Arrau's famed technique in action.

Piano Mastery
Piano Mastery

Author: Harriette Brower

Publisher: Courier Corporation

Published: 2003-01-01

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 9780486427812

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Here, in one remarkable volume, are the thoughts, musical insights, and invaluable practical advice from a host of world-class musicians. Ignacy Paderewski talks about the correct motion of fingers and forearm in his new "Méthode"; Josef Hofmann talks about the role of inspiration, Leopold Godowsky discusses the laws governing technique, more. Introduction by Dr. Jeffrey Johnson.

Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice
Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice

Author: Mine Dogantan-Dack

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2016-03-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1317178203

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Artistic Practice as Research in Music: Theory, Criticism, Practice brings together internationally renowned scholars and practitioners to explore the cultural, institutional, theoretical, methodological, epistemological, ethical and practical aspects and implications of the rapidly evolving area of artistic research in music. Through various theoretical positions and case studies, and by establishing robust connections between theoretical debates and concrete examples of artistic research projects, the authors discuss the conditions under which artistic practice becomes a research activity; how practice-led research is understood in conservatoire settings; issues of assessment in relation to musical performance as research; methodological possibilities open to music practitioners entering academic environments as researchers; the role of technology in processes of musical composition as research; the role and value of performerly knowledge in music-analytical enquiry; issues in relation to live performance as a research method; artistic collaboration and improvisation as research tools; interdisciplinary concerns of the artist-researcher; and the relationship between the affordances of a musical instrument and artistic research in musical performance. Readers will come away from the book with fresh insights about the theoretical, critical and practical work being done by experts in this exciting new field of enquiry.

Natural Fingering
Natural Fingering

Author: Jon Verbalis

Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Published: 2012-05-31

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 019978163X

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In further developing Chopin's thinking on pianism, this book explores the keyboard's topographical symmetry and the revolutionary impact of symmetrical inversion on piano technique and pedagogy. With copious excerpts from the extant repertoire, this is the first comprehensive discussion of fingering solutions for pianists since Hummel's monumental treatise of 1828.