Items related to First Principles of Pianoforte Playing
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1905 edition. Excerpt: ...arm must be made to resume its self-support automatically. This it will do, if we "leave it in the lurch," at the Wrist, by promptly ceasing all work of the finger and hand against the key, the moment that sound is reached. y): The continuous weight required to form the second (or slightly heavier) kind of "Resting," upon which depends the effect of Tenuto and Legato, is obtained in the same way: A very slight release of the whole arm suffices; not dis-continuous as for the Added-impetus, but here continuous, and no greater than just sufficient to overbalance the key into descent. %J: This same process also forms the absolute-/)/) Weighttouch. 1 This all-important matter, the muscnlar-construction of the act of Touch in its Three main Species, and the Varieties of these, is more fully dealt with in Chapter XTX., which see. To obtain it, we must be careful really to weigh the key down by such arm-release, and not in the least to put it down by muscular-initiative. aa): True Legato, we found, is only possible in finger-passages;1 for the Tenuto form of the Resting (or pp Weight-touch) must here be transferred from finger to finger during the continuance of each phrase. This transfer should be effected by timing the previous finger to cease its weight-supporting activity at the moment that the next key's descent is required to commence. Thus the new finger is compelled to take up its duties automatically in response to the weight being "left in the lurch" by the preceding finger. bb): Without any Added-impetus, this forms pp Transfer-touch. Here again we must be careful not directly to influence the new finger's depression; we must instead insist on the previous finger giving way at the right moment. cc): The...
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- PublisherBosworth & Co
- Publication date1905
- ISBN 10 0900180404
- ISBN 13 9780900180408
- BindingSpiral-bound
- Number of pages136
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