Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher:
Published: 1994
Total Pages: 856
ISBN-13: 9780253208859
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The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling
Author: Joseph Banowetz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2022-11
Total Pages: 321
ISBN-13: 0253066751
DOWNLOAD EBOOK" . . . 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.
Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2013-12-03
Total Pages: 1215
ISBN-13: 0253010233
DOWNLOAD EBOOKGuide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with more than 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature and provides answers to common questions: What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach the publisher? New to the fourth edition are enhanced indexes identifying black composers, women composers, and compositions for piano with live or recorded electronics; a thorough listing of anthologies and collections organized by time period and nationality, now including collections from Africa and Slovakia; and expanded entries to account for new material, works, and resources that have become available since the third edition, including websites and electronic resources. The "newest Hinson" will be an indispensible guide for many years to come.
Pianists Guide to Standard Teaching and Performance Literature
Author: Jane Magrath
Publisher: Alfred Music
Published: 1995
Total Pages: 588
ISBN-13: 9781457438974
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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.
The Pianist's Dictionary
Author: Maurice Hinson
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2020-03-03
Total Pages: 252
ISBN-13: 0253047358
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom A to Z to middle C: An “essential reference” for piano students, teachers, players, and music lovers, with hundreds of definitions (E.L. Lancaster, Alfred Music). The Pianist’s Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson and Wesley Roberts, this revised and expanded edition is a compendium of information gleaned from a combined century of piano teaching. Users will find helpful and clear definitions of musical and pianistic terms, performance directions, composers, pianists, famous piano pieces, and piano makers. The authors’ succinct entries make The Pianist’s Dictionary the perfect reference for compiling program and liner notes, studying scores, and learning and teaching the instrument. “This new edition is a go-to source for piano scholars and students for quick information on musical terms, pianists, major works in the piano repertoire, piano manufacturers, and more . . . comprehensive, easy to use.” —Jane Magrath, University of Oklahoma
The Pianist's Craft
Author: Richard P. Anderson
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Published: 2012
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0810882051
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo 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.
What Every Pianist Needs to Know about the Body
Author: Thomas Carson Mark
Publisher: GIA Publications
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 182
ISBN-13: 9781579992064
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDescribes and demonstrates the places of balance, standing and sitting in balance, structure, movement of the hands and arms, and other topics.
The Pianist
Author: Wladyslaw Szpilman
Publisher: Macmillan + ORM
Published: 2000-09-02
Total Pages: 221
ISBN-13: 1466837624
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe “striking” holocaust memoir that that inspired the Oscar-winning film “conveys with exceptional immediacy . . . the author’s desperate fight for survival” (Kirkus Reviews). On September 23, 1939, Wladyslaw Szpilman played Chopin’s Nocturne in C-sharp minor live on the radio as shells exploded outside—so loudly that he couldn’t hear his piano. It was the last live music broadcast from Warsaw: That day, a German bomb hit the station, and Polish Radio went off the air. Though he lost his entire family, Szpilman survived in hiding. In the end, his life was saved by a German officer who heard him play the same Chopin Nocturne on a piano found among the rubble. Written immediately after the war and suppressed for decades, The Pianist is a stunning testament to human endurance and the redemptive power of fellow feeling. “Szpilman’s memoir of life in the Warsaw ghetto is remarkable not only for the heroism of its protagonists but for the author’s lack of bitterness, even optimism, in recounting the events.” —Library Journal “Employing language that has more in common with the understatement of Primo Levi than with the moral urgency of Elie Wiesel, Szpilman is a remarkably lucid observer and chronicler of how, while his family perished, he survived thanks to a combination of resourcefulness and chance.” —Publishers Weekly “[Szpilman’s] account is hair-raising beyond anything Hollywood could invent . . . an altogether unforgettable book.” —The Daily Telegraph “[Szpilman’s] shock and ensuing numbness become ours, so that acts of ordinary kindness or humanity take on an aura of miracle.” —The Observer
Chopin
Author: Eleanor Bailie
Publisher:
Published: 1998
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781871082678
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis work is part of a series of comprehensive practical guides for the solo piano. A reference book for all levels - amateur, student, teacher and professional - the purpose of the series is to help pianists with their choice of music to suit their own styles and capabilities, and to discuss their technical and interpretive demands. This volume provides a complete survey of Chopin's music for solo piano, including a graded list of his works together with detailed suggestions for study and performance. An extended introduction places Chopin in the context of his time, distancing him from the romantic misconceptions that have dogged his reputation through successive generations.
Coordinate Movement for Pianists
Author: Lisa Marsh
Publisher:
Published: 2020-09
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781622773985
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"Drawing from experience in the fields of piano instruction, medicine, and body mapping, author Lisa Marsh presents a detailed discussion--complete with anatomical drawings and music examples--about the types of movement that contribute to a healthy, fluid, and versatile piano technique."--from the publisher.
