Notes From The Pianist S Bench

Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2017-11-28
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300221534

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Notes from the Pianist's Bench by Boris Berman Pdf

A master class on piano performance and pedagogy from the world-renowned concert pianist In this newly revised edition of a comprehensive guide to piano technique, performance, and music interpretation, renowned performing musician, recording artist, and teacher Boris Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this essential volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike. It is also available as a multimedia e-Book.

Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-01-01
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9780300221527

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Notes from the Pianist's Bench by Boris Berman Pdf

Berman addresses virtually every aspect of musical artistry and pedagogy. Ranging from such practical matters as sound, touch, and pedaling to the psychology of performing and teaching, this volume provides a master class for the performer, instructor, and student alike.

Author : Alan Shockley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-06-05
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781442281882

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The Contemporary Piano by Alan Shockley Pdf

With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them. Shockley explains dozens of ways to prepare a piano without damaging the instrument, how to notate every standard technique and many, many obscure ones, and the specific geographies of every common concert hall piano. This will be the standard reference for pianists touring and playing inside-the-piano repertoire, and for composers at all levels of familiarity with the piano hoping to understand the mechanical miracle that is the modern piano.

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780743243

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Piano Notes by Charles Rosen Pdf

Author : Christopher Berg
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780429578427

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Practicing Music by Design by Christopher Berg Pdf

Practicing Music by Design: Historic Virtuosi on Peak Performance explores pedagogical practices for achieving expert skill in performance. It is an account of the relationship between historic practices and modern research, examining the defining characteristics and applications of eight common components of practice from the perspectives of performing artists, master teachers, and scientists. The author presents research past and present designed to help musicians understand the abstract principles behind the concepts. After studying Practicing Music by Design, students and performers will be able to identify areas in their practice that prevent them from developing. The tenets articulated here are universal, not instrument-specific, borne of modern research and the methods of legendary virtuosi and teachers. Those figures discussed include: Luminaries Franz Liszt and Frederic Chopin Renowned performers Anton Rubinstein, Mark Hambourg, Ignace Paderewski, and Sergei Rachmaninoff Extraordinary teachers Theodor Leschetizky, Rafael Joseffy, Leopold Auer, Carl Flesch, and Ivan Galamian Lesser-known musicians who wrote perceptively on the subject, such as violinists Frank Thistleton, Rowsby Woof, Achille Rivarde, and Sydney Robjohns Practicing Music by Design forges old with new connections between research and practice, outlining the practice practices of some of the most virtuosic concert performers in history while ultimately addressing the question: How does all this work to make for better musicians and artists?

Author : Charles Rosen
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 2015-07-30
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780141979861

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Piano Notes by Charles Rosen Pdf

In this eloquent, intimate exploration of the delights and demands of the piano, world-renowned concert pianist and music writer Charles Rosen draws on a lifetime's wisdom to consider every aspect of the instrument: from what makes a beautiful sound to suffering from stage fright, from the physical challenges of playing to tales of great musicians, including Vladimir Horowitz's recording tricks, Rachmaninov's hands and why Artur Rubenstein applied hairspray to the keys. Gracefully blending anecdote, history, expertise and memoir, Piano Notes will enchant anyone with a passion for music.

Author : Boris Berman
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780300145007

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Prokofiev's Piano Sonatas by Boris Berman Pdf

Boris Berman draws on his intimate knowledge of Prokofiev's work to guide music lovers and pianists through the composer's nine piano sonatas.

Author : Brad Hill
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781429526531

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The Complete Idiot's Guide to Playing Piano, 2E by Brad Hill Pdf

Whether you are an aspiring concert pianist or just want to play keyboards in your own band, The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Playing Piano and Electronic Keyboards, Second Edition will give you just what you need to know. From reading music and learning chords, to understanding music notation or buying an instrument, expert author Brad Hill tells gets you started. With more music and expanded practice sessions, the new edition of this already popular book will be a necessity for the beginner. Learn posture, positionings, fingerings, notations, drills, and advice from the masters. Also, learn how to fake your way through accompaniment, stay motivated to practice and advance to the intermediate level.

Author : Roger Chaffin,Gabriela Imreh,Mary Crawford
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-11
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781135685461

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Practicing Perfection by Roger Chaffin,Gabriela Imreh,Mary Crawford Pdf

The memory feats of famous musicians seem almost superhuman. Can such extraordinary accomplishments be explained by the same principles that account for more ordinary, everyday memory abilities? To find out, a concert pianist videotaped her practice as she learned a new piece for performance, the third movement, Presto, of the Italian Concerto by J.S. Bach. The story of how the pianist went about learning, memorizing and polishing the piece is told from the viewpoints of the pianist (the second author) and of a cognitive psychologist (the first author) observing the practice. The counterpoint between these insider and outsider perspectives is framed by the observations of a social psychologist (the third author) about how the two viewpoints were reconciled. The CD that accompanies the book provides for yet another perspective, allowing the reader to hear the polished performance. Written for both psychologists and musicians, the book provides the first detailed description of how an experienced pianist organizes her practice, identifying stages of the learning process, characteristics of expert practice, and practice strategies. The main focus, however, is on memorization. An analysis of what prominent pianists of the past century have said about memorization reveals considerable disagreement and confusion. Using previous work on expert memory as a starting point, the authors show how principles of memory developed by cognitive psychologists apply to musical performance and uncover the intimate connection between memorization and interpretation.

Author : Zecharia Plavin
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : Education
ISBN : 9789811921414

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We Piano Teachers and Our Demons by Zecharia Plavin Pdf

This book focuses on piano teachers and the many pains they encounter in their careers. These pains play an essential role in blocking the musical inspiration of their students. The author identifies with the sensitivities of the teachers, aiming at the inspiration permeated and safer playing of their students. The book penetrates the protective mechanisms of the teachers that, on the one hand, maintain their professional functioning, while on the other hand, block refreshing ideas. It combines exploration of secure and culturally informed inspired playing, coping with exaggerated anxiety and understanding the interaction of piano actions with pianist’s physiology. This book helps to open teachers’ perceptions of the ways to enable more secure and more inspired performances while remembering the inner feelings of the piano teachers.

Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1979
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:243915136

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Notes of a pianist by Louis Moreau Gottschalk Pdf

Author : Georgia Volioti,Daniel G Barolsky
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-09
Category : Music
ISBN : 9781040085936

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Recorded Music in Creative Practices by Georgia Volioti,Daniel G Barolsky Pdf

Recorded Music in Creative Practices: Mediation, Performance, Education brings new critical perspectives on recorded music research, artistic practice, and education into an active dialogue. Although scholars continue to engage keenly in the study of recordings and studio practices, less attention has been devoted to integrating these newer developments into music curricula. The fourteen chapters in this book bring fresh insight to the art and craft of recording music and offer readers ways to bridge research and pedagogy in diverse educational, academic, and music industry contexts. By exploring a wide range of genres, methods, and practices, this book aims to demonstrate how engaging with recordings, recording processes, material artefacts, studio spaces, and revised music history narratives means we can promote new understandings of the past, more creative performance in the present, and freer collaboration and experimentation inside and outside of the recording studio; enhance creative teaching and learning; inform and stimulate reform of the institutional processes and structures that frame musical training; and ultimately promote more diverse music curricula and communities of practice. This book will be of value to educators, researchers, practitioners (performers, composers, recordists), students in music and music-related fields, recording enthusiasts, and readers with a keen interest in the subject.

Author : Louis Moreau Gottschalk
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Musicians
ISBN : OCLC:1141075936

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Notes of a Pianist by Louis Moreau Gottschalk Pdf

Author : Robert Rimm
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781574670721

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The Composer-pianists by Robert Rimm Pdf

"The recordings made by Marc-Andre Hamelin in recent years have cast new light on an extraordinary group of composers - Alkan, Busoni, Feinberg, Godowsky, Medtner, Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Sorabji - whose works heralded a Golden Age of virtuosic writing for the piano." "The Eight, as author Robert Rimm has termed these composer-pianists, have much in common, traits shared in our own age with Marc-Andre Hamelin, their foremost interpreter. For all their evident differences of age, nationality, and philosophy, they each created music of unprecedented ingenuity - often complex and of immense scale - that stretched the limits of the piano's capabilities. And all were genuine virtuosos with the technical resources to play these demanding works in public." "The volume includes rare photographs and concludes with an extensive bibliography, listings of the complete solo piano works of The Eight, and discographies of their solo piano recordings. In exploring the art of those who knew their instrument both as composers and as pianists, this book serves, in the words of pianist Stephen Hough, "both as a fascinating, exhaustive study of the riches of the past and as a stimulating inspiration for the future.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

Author : Alan Hersh
Publisher : University Press of America
Page : 99 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2009-12-07
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780761848394

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A Pianist's Dictionary by Alan Hersh Pdf

A Pianist's Dictionary is an exploration of the world of the classical pianist and piano professor. The author deconstructs the many familiar words that help describe these worlds as well as their practitioners. Based upon a lifetime of experience as an active concert artist and college professor, this book will resonate with both past and current students of the piano and with music lovers with even a passing interest in these worlds. Written in an accessible style, A Pianist's Dictionary covers the piano world from accompanist to tone and voicing, and helps the reader understand the mysteries of practicing and the challenges of how to find a suitable piano teacher. Filled with amusing anecdotes and observations, this book is a welcome addition to the literature about pianos and pianists.