A Study Guide to the Craft of Piano Playing
Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9788683535842
Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 50 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2009
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9788683535842
Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
Page : 511 pages
File Size : 10,18 MB
Release : 2023-12-21
Category : Music
ISBN : 1493083449
In The Craft of Piano Playing, master pianist Alan Fraser offers readers an original and comprehensive approach to piano technique, offering over 100 illustrations and a series of unique exercises to guide the reader. Drawing on his many years as a performer and teacher, his long-standing collaborations with pedagogue Phil Cohen and virtuoso Kemal Gekich, and his professional training in the Feldenkrais Method, Fraser introduces his truly innovative piano technique by • Teaching how to move your hands with greater sensitivity, power, and accuracy, and honing the skeletal alignments to help you access your innate, structural potency; • Linking your physical technique to musical expression, creating an "absolutely natural way of moving at the piano that is powerful, flexible, and musical" (Piano News, Germany); and • Keeping your hands healthy while avoiding the threats of tendonitis, carpal tunnel syndrome, focal dystonia, and RSI. This revised second edition joins the DVD of the same name, his study guide, and his latest book, Honing the Pianistic Self-Image, in Alan Fraser's growing line of piano pedagogical materials. This edition includes new chapters, such as "Arm Rhythm" and "The Body's Support of Natural Finger Shape," updated material reflecting evolutions in Fraser's technical and pedagogical thinking, a "cleaner and leaner" literary style, and more extensive, better-organized tables of contents, with cross-references to corresponding chapters in the DVD. For more information please visit www.maplegroveproductions.com, www.craftofpiano.com, or www.alanfraser.net
Author : Seymour Fink
Publisher : Hal Leonard Corporation
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 37,46 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780931340468
(Amadeus). This holistic approach to the keyboard, based on a sound understanding of the relationship between physical function and musical purpose, is an invaluable resource for pianists and teachers. Professor Fink explains his ideas and demonstrates his innovative developmental exercises that set the pianist free to express the most profound musical ideas. HARDCOVER.
Author : George Kochevitsky
Publisher : Alfred Music
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 29,33 MB
Release : 1995-11-16
Category : Music
ISBN : 1457400332
So many of the great pianists and teachers have come out of Poland and Russia (Rubinstein, Anton as well as Arthur, Leschetizky, Paderewski, the Lhevinnes, Gilels, Richter, and others), yet we know little about their methods of learning and teaching. George Kochevitsky in The Art of Piano Playing supplies some important sources of information previously unavailable in the United States. From these sources, tempered by this own thinking, Kochevitsky formulated a scientific approach that can solve most problems of piano playing and teaching. George Kochevitsky graduated in 1930 from Leningrad Conservatory and did post-graduate work at Moscow Conservatory. After coming to the U.S., he taught privately in New York City, gave a number of lectures, and wrote for various music periodicals.
Author : Alan Fraser
Publisher :
Page : 399 pages
File Size : 48,51 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Piano
ISBN : 9788683535897
Honing the pianistic self-image takes up where The Craft of Piano Playing left off in the development of Alan Fraser's comprehensive piano technique. Where Craft focused on the foundational security of the hand's innate structure and function, Honing shows you how to take that structure up into a new, sophisticated state--unstable equilibrium--to gain an even finer control over the colours and emotion you produce at the piano. --from publisher description.
Author : Lillie H. Philipp
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 26,1 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780486242729
This well-known pianist and teacher's guide to sound piano technique covers tone production, fingering, pedaling, chords, sight-reading, and more. Its 63 musical excerpts include works by such masters as Beethoven, Chopin, Schumann, Mendelssohn, and Liszt. Numerous exercises, complemented by 64 black-and-white photographs, demonstrate a variety of technical, stylistic, and musical approaches.
Author : Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach
Publisher : W W Norton & Company Incorporated
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 19,9 MB
Release : 1949
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393097160
J. S. Bach's musician son explains the technique for performing eighteenth-century compositions, discussing fingering, embellishments, bass, and accompaniment
Author : Josef Lhévinne
Publisher :
Page : 68 pages
File Size : 41,77 MB
Release : 1924
Category : Piano
ISBN :
Great modern teacher and pianist's concise statement of principles, technique, and related material. Includes 10 musical examples.
Author : William Westney
Publisher : Amadeus Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 21,98 MB
Release : 2006-06-01
Category : Music
ISBN : 1574673890
(Amadeus). In this groundbreaking book, prize-winning pianist and noted educator William Westney helps readers discover their own path to the natural, transcendent fulfillment of making music. Drawing on experience, psychological insight, and wisdom ancient and modern, Westney shows how to trust yourself and set your own musicality free. He offers healthy alternatives for lifelong learning and suggests significant change in the way music is taught. For example, playing a wrong note can be constructive, useful, even enlightening. The creator of the acclaimed Un-Master Class workshop also explores the special potential of group work, outlining the basics of his revelatory workshop that has transformed the music experience for participants the world over. Practicing, in Westney's view, is a lively, honest, adventurous, and spiritually rewarding enterprise, and it can (and should) meet with daily success, which empowers us to grow even more. Teachers, professionals, and students of any instrument will benefit from this unique guide, which brings artistic vitality, freedom, and confidence within everyone's reach.
Author : Otto Ortmann
Publisher :
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 1981
Category : Hand
ISBN :