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 19 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
GwenolynMok'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, the
influence of Schubert's lieder on his piano works, 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
addresses issues unique to the individual composer they have chosen
to explore, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation,
dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and
genre. Valuable insight is provided into teaching, performing, and
preparing these great works. 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.
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