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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822029203321

Titolo

The pianist's craft : mastering the works of great composers / / edited by Richard Paul Anderson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, MD, : Scarecrow Press, 2012

ISBN

1-283-43289-7

9786613432896

0-8108-8206-X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

AndersonRichard P

Disciplina

786.2/143

Soggetti

Piano - Performance

Piano - Instruction and study

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 01. Performing Scarlatti; Chapter 02. Problems and Chance; Chapter 03. A Pianist's Journey to the Classic Sonata; Chapter 04. Performing Mozart on a Modern Piano; Chapter 05. Genre References in Beethoven Sonatas; Chapter 06. Franz Schubert; Chapter 07. Schumann and Butterflies; Chapter 08. Teaching Tone, Technique, and Phrasing in the Piano Works of Chopin; Chapter 09. Color and Gesture in the Piano Music of Franz Liszt; Chapter 10. Interpreting Brahms; Chapter 11. Reflections on Ravel; Chapter 12. Imagination in the Piano Works of Debussy

Chapter 13. Some Suggestions for Preparing and Playing RachmaninoffChapter 14. Finding the Essence of Late Scriabin in His Tenth Sonata; Chapter 15. Sergei Prokofiev; Chapter 16. The Piano Music of Dmitri Shostakovich; Chapter 17. Playing and Teaching the Piano Music of Béla Bartók; Chapter 18. George Gershwin; Chapter 19. Exploring Sonority and Drama Inside the Instrument; Index; About the Editor

Sommario/riassunto

In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 18 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. 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, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, c