NOTE BY NOTE, A CELEBRATION OF THE PIANO LESSON- - - signed- - - -

Tunstall, Tricia

ISBN 10: 1416540504 / ISBN 13: 9781416540502

Published by Simon and Schuster, 2008

About this Item

----------Black hardcovers, 8 1/2" tall. 214 pages.NEAR FINE CONDITION, with scuff on frront cover, under the Fine Dust jacket.- - - -SIGNED AND INSCRIBED BY AUTHOR, ON FLYLEAF, DATED APRIL 2008- - - - -.

Seller Inventory # 045618

Bibliographic Details

• Title: NOTE BY NOTE, A CELEBRATION OF THE PIANO LESSON- - - signed- - - -
• Publisher: Simon and Schuster
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1416540504
• ISBN 13: 9781416540502
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Printing.
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Jacket Has New Mylar Cover
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • SIGNED BY AUTHOR or SIGNIFICANT SIGNATURE

About this title

Synopsis

In this luminous book, Tricia Tunstall explores the enduring fascination of the piano lesson. Even as everything else about the world of music changes, the piano lesson retains its appeal. Drawing on her own lifelong experience as a student and teacher, Tunstall writes about the mysteries and delights of piano teaching and learning. What is it that happens in a piano lesson to make it such a durable ritual? In a world where music is heard more often on the telephone and in the elevator than in the concert hall, why does the piano lesson still have meaning in the lives of children? What does it matter whether one more child learns to play Bach's Minuet in G?

Note by Note is in part a memoir in which Tunstall recalls her own childhood piano teachers and their influence. As she observes, the piano lesson is unlike the experience of being coached on an athletic team or taught in a classroom, in that it is a one-on-one, personal communication. Physically proximate, mutually concentrating on the transfer of a skill that is often arduous, complicated and frustrating, teacher and student occasionally experience breakthroughs-moments of joy when the student has learned something, mastered a musical passage or expressed a feeling through music. The relationship is not only one-way: teaching the piano is a lifelong endeavor of particular intensity and power.

Anyone who has ever studied the piano-or wanted to-will cherish this gem of a book.

About the Author

Tricia Tunstall is a writer, teacher, and musician. She has taught piano for years in Maplewood, New Jersey, and has also served as Adjunct Professor of Music at Drew University and at Bergen College. She is currently a doctoral candidate in music education at Boston University.