Improvisation for the pianoforte, op. 51
Author : William Mason
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Piano music
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Author : William Mason
Publisher :
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 34,93 MB
Release : 1900
Category : Piano music
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Author : Misha V. Stefanuk
Publisher : Mel Bay Publications
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 47,43 MB
Release : 2011-08-19
Category : Music
ISBN : 1610657969
This book teaches the improvisation of classical piano music through a step-by-step method including the use of chord tone approaches, scales, arpeggios, non-chord tones, motivic development, ornamentation, modulation, stylistic variation, and more. By practicing simple tasks the pianist escapes the mental pressure of performing on the spot and develops the ease and freedom of improvising in classical styles. This book also includes 7 variations on a theme by Beethoven illustrating the improvisational concept and technique. Includes CD.
Author : Brian Chung
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 43,14 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739043783
This unique text uses a step-by-step approach to guide the reader from fundamental concepts to advanced topics in improvisation. Each subject is broken into easy to understand segments, gradually becoming more complex as improvisational tools are acquired. Designed for the classically trained pianist with little or no experience in improvisation, it uses the reader's previous knowledge of basic theory and technique to help accelerate the learning process. Included are more than 450 music examples and illustrations to reinforce the concepts discussed. These concepts are useful in all improvisational settings and can be applied to any musical style. For pianists interested in jazz, there are three chapters dedicated to introducing jazz improvisation, which can be used as the basis for further study in this idiom. Teachers using this text can go online to www.improvisationatthepiano.com to download lesson plans, ask specific questions about improvisation, and view answers to the most frequently asked questions about this book. 232 pages.
Author : Simon P. Keefe
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2005-10-27
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780521834834
A rare volume dedicated entirely to scholarship on the genre of the concerto.
Author : John J. Mortensen
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 43,6 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Music
ISBN : 0190920394
"This book is for pianists who wish to improvise. Many will be experienced performers - perhaps even veteran concert artists - who are nevertheless beginners at improvisation. This contradiction is a reflection of our educational system. Those who attend collegiate music schools spend nearly all time and effort on learning, perfecting, and reciting masterpieces from the standard repertoire. As far as I can remember, no one ever taught or advocated for improvisation during my decade as a student in music schools. Certainly no one ever improvised anything substantial in a concert (except for the jazz musicians, who were, I regret to say, a separate division and generally viewed with complete indifference by the classical community). Nor did any history professor mention that, long ago, improvisation was commonplace and indeed an indispensable skill for much of the daily activity of a working musician. I continue to dedicate a portion of my career to "perfecting and reciting" masterpieces of the repertoire, and teaching my students to do the same. That tradition is dear to me. Still, if I have one regret about my traditional education, it's that it wasn't traditional enough. We have forgotten that in the eighteenth century - those hundred years that form the bedrock of classical music - improvisation was a foundation of music training. Oddly, our discipline has discarded a practice that helped bring it into being. Perhaps it is time to retrieve it from the junk heap of history and give it a good dusting off. I love the legends of the improvisational powers of the masters: Bach creating elaborate fugues on the spot, or Beethoven humiliating Daniel Steibelt by riffing upon and thereby exposing the weakness of the latter's inferior tunes. The stories implied that these abilities were instances of inexplicable genius which we could admire in slack-jawed wonder but never emulate. But that isn't right. Bach could improvise fugues not because he was unique but because almost any properly-trained keyboard player in his day could. Even mediocre talents could improvise mediocre fugues. Bach was exceptionally good at something which pretty much everyone could do at a passable level. They could all do it because it was built into their musical thinking from the very beginning of their training"--
Author : Carl Humphries
Publisher :
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 30,22 MB
Release : 2009
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Author : Martial Solal
Publisher :
Page : 144 pages
File Size : 11,7 MB
Release : 1997
Category : Improvisation (Music)
ISBN : 9780786645169
Author : Carl Humphries
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,76 MB
Release : 2009
Category :
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Author : Noah Baerman
Publisher : Alfred Music Publishing
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,47 MB
Release : 2003
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780739031711
National Keyboard Workshop book, approved curriculum.
Author : Library of Congress. Copyright Office
Publisher :
Page : 1330 pages
File Size : 42,94 MB
Release : 1910
Category : American drama
ISBN :