Craft of Piano Playing (eBook)

A New Approach to Piano Technique

Alan Fraser (Autor)

Sonya Ardan (Urheber)

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2003 | 2. Auflage
448 Seiten
Scarecrow Press (Verlag)
978-1-4616-6411-6 (ISBN)

Infos

Presenting a new, comprehensive and highly original approach to piano technique with a fascinating series of exercises to help the reader put this approach into practice, this guide uses numerous musical examples and sketches to show how many common movement habits at the keyboard are counterproductive. Fraser provides a new way of manipulating the skeletal frame of the hand to produce astonishing sonic results from the instrument.

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The Craft of Piano Playing presents a new, comprehensive and highly original approach to piano technique with a fascinating series of exercises designed to help the reader put this approach into practice. Alan Fraser has combined his extensive concert and pedagogical experience, his long-standing collaboration with the virtuoso Kemal Gekich, and his professional training in Feldenkrais Method to create this innovative technique. Using numerous musical examples and sketches he shows how many common movement habits at the keyboard can be counterproductive, and provides a new way of manipulating the skeletal frame of the hand to produce astonishing sonic results from the instrument.This book suggests that in the light of new insights into the physics of human movement, a further development of piano technique is now possible, and that improved physical ability can free musical individuality to express itself more fully. The series of movement exercises presented activates the physical functions necessary to the pianist, helping both students who need remedial work in basic strength at the keyboard, and those who seek a new dimension of musical understanding and a new path for the development of pianist skills - thus synthesizing musical and physical issues. This approach can also serve as an effective antidote to debilitating performance anxiety, increasing one's emotional security by improving the physical and musical basis for it. By filling in a missing link between intention and physical execution, this book truly aims to advance the "e;craft of piano playing."e;Visit Alan Fraser's web site at http://alanfraser.faithweb.com/

Autor

Canadian pianist Alan Fraser is Professor of Piano and Feldenkrais Method at the Art Academy of the University of Novi Sad, Serbia.

Inhalt

Chapter 1 IllustrationsChapter 2 Musical ExamplesChapter 3 ApplicationsChapter 4 AcknowledgmentsPart 5 SECTION I — THE FOREGROUND: PIANISTIC PROBLEMS IN MUSICAL CRAFTChapter 6 Part I — Getting StartedChapter 7 Part II — General principles of Movement at the PianoChapter 8 Part III — Hand Strength and Function A: Perfecting LegatoChapter 9 Part IV — Hand Strength and Function B: The Special Role of the Thumb and Its Relationship to the ForefingerChapter 10 Part V — Hand Strength and Function C: Octaves to Synthesize Hand and Arm FunctionChapter 11 Part VI — Hand Strength and Function D: Maximal Articulation of the FingersChapter 12 Part VII — Above the Hand: The Role of the Wrist and Arm in LegatoChapter 13 Part VIII — RotationChapter 14 Part IX — Natural Finger ShapeChapter 15 Part X — Some Other Touch Strategies and CombinationsPart 16 SECTION II — THE MIDDLEGROUND: SOME GENERAL ASPECTS OF MUSICAL CRAFTChapter 17 Part XI — RhythmChapter 18 Part XII — PhrasingChapter 19 Part XIII — OrchestrationPart 20 SECTION III — THE BACKGROUND: TELL A STORYChapter 21 Part XIV — Emotional ContentChapter 22 Part XV — A Few Last ThoughtsChapter 23 AppendixesChapter 24 BibliographyChapter 25 IndexChapter 26 About the Author

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.3.2003
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenkunde
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Instrumentenunterrricht
• ISBN-10: 1-4616-6411-X / 146166411X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4616-6411-6 / 9781461664116