The Pianist's Craft: Mastering the Works of Great Composers

ISBN 10: 0810882051 / ISBN 13: 9780810882058

Published by Scarecrow Press, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Pianist's Craft: Mastering the Works of Great Composers
• Publisher: Scarecrow Press
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810882051
• ISBN 13: 9780810882058
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

No pianist can experience the full flowering of her art without eventually grappling with those great musical minds who composed specifically for piano. 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. This collection ranges in subject matter from Inge Rosar's meditation on playing Bach on the modern keyboard to Gary Amato's assessment of Haydn's sonatas, from Christie Skousen's review of tone production in Chopin to Gwenolyn Mok's foray into recreating Ravel's works on an Erard piano, the same used by Ravel himself.

Readers will find essays as well on Mozart's piano compositions, Beethoven's sonatas, Schubert's lieder, and works by Schumann, Liszt, Brahms, Debussy, Rachmaninoff, Scriabin, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Bartok, Gershwin, and Crumb. 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. Each author take on an individual composer, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre.

In The Pianist's Craft these great artists and teachers answer questions for readers that are otherwise only addressed in conferences, master classes, and private lessons. In this collection of essays, key points of information and instruction are offered with over 200 musical examples included as illustration.

The Pianist's Craft is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music generally.

About the Author

Richard Paul Anderson is associate professor in the School of Music at Brigham Young University, where he has served for 39 years as a member of piano faculty. An author, teacher and composer, he also teaches theory and composition and coordinates the Group Piano programs for music majors and non-music majors. Anderson is the author of Beginning Piano Techniques (2006) and Ensemble: Keyboard Proficiency for the Music Major (2002), and co-author of Simple Steps to Playing the Piano (1999).