Download or read book Afterthoughts of a Pianist Teacher written by Donald Isler and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2022-01-13 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “This is a book I would readily recommend to any performer, teacher, student, or lover of the piano,” says pianist and composer John Musto. Pianist and professor Lisa Yui writes, “Donald Isler’s collection of articles and interviews are delightful! They are written in the charming and breezy style of Huneker, Loesser, and Hough (three of the most esteemed writers on the piano and pianists), but underneath lies a depth of knowledge and experience. The interviews are informative and observant, the articles witty and self-reflective. Each is fascinating, informative, enlightening—in short, a wonderful read!” According to Jerome Lowenthal, professor at the Juilliard School and one of the most renowned pianists of his generation, “If there was a golden age of pianophilia, it is nobly continued today by pianist-journalists like Donald Isler.” Author Donald Isler reflects on more than fifty years’ experience teaching, attending concerts, and living a professional life dedicated to music. Though the responsibilities of being a true artist or a good teacher are taken seriously, there are also many lighthearted and amusing stories. The thirty-five essays that comprise Part I of the book include provocative titles, such as “Up from Mediocrity,” “In Praise of Rule Breakers,” “Do I Keep an Open Mind,” plus articles about great musicians Isler heard, knew personally, or studied with. The thirty-one interviews that make up Part II followed in-depth conversations with each subject. They reveal much about the lives and careers of great artists of the older generation, such as Gary Graffman and Ruth Slenczynska, several child prodigies and many distinguished musicians in-between, as well as two acclaimed radio personalities, one impresario who has devoted her life to developing the careers of many important musicians—and Dr. Ruth Westheimer, the sex therapist, who speaks about the music in her life!
Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists written by Richard Masters and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-09-30 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This essential reference focuses on the lives, careers, and musical contributions of over 150 American pianists from early days of the nation until the present day. Richard Masters spotlights both modern and historical pianists—including women, people of color, and LGBTQ+ pianists who either never had the opportunity to win widespread acclaim but were top notch performers or who achieved important careers against heavy odds but were soon forgotten after their deaths, such as Augusta Cottlow, George Copeland, and Natalie Hinderas. This volume also gives attention to important collaborative pianists—none of whom have ever appeared in any volume on classical pianists—and influential pedagogues, some of whom never had significant performing careers but produced important students. Each entry explores an individual pianist’s life and career—from relevant biographical details to impact on American musical culture—and includes a selected list and brief discussion of existing and available recordings, if any. Additionally, an introduction situates these pianists into historical trends. Overseen by a blue-ribbon editorial board, Encyclopedia of American Classical Pianists: 1800s to the Present provides a comprehensive view of the depth and breadth of American pianistic achievement and serves as the most up-to-date work for students, piano departments, music libraries, researchers, and interested pianophiles.
Download or read book Our Piano Teacher written by Katherine Koester and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Inc.. This book was released on 2020-07-14 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a student continue with piano lessons their entire educational career? A great experience with music and teachers! This book can be read multiple times in a year! Our Piano Teacher is like a scrapbook of memories, relived and celebrated with each reading. The experiences learned from music and teachers have far-reaching life benefits for both students and adults. Readers can relate as students grapple with a myriad of challenges that are overcome with excellent coaching and hard work to produce soaring satisfaction year after year. You'll feel the endearing qualities of Our Piano Teacher, who is patient, kind, does not keep track of wrongs, does not boast, and has a special essence that keeps people begging to learn more! Music truly reaches all areas of educational subjects with its history and worldwide span. Our Piano Teacher celebrates teaching. "Everyone should buy this book!" Our Piano Teacher says, "Kathi has hit the nail on the head regarding the entire industry and subject of music. People should learn that there is a worthwhile difference in a really good instructor and be motivated to not treat lessons as a simple task on the calendar. Just having a degree doesn't make you a good teacher. You have to learn how to bring out what inspires each student, and I've felt blessed to produce some greats."
Download or read book The Piano Teacher written by Eugene Stickland and published by . This book was released on 2015-04-27 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reclusive and eccentric concert pianist is asked to teach piano lessons to a 7 year old girl. This and an upcoming concert he agrees to play draw him back into the real world.
Download or read book Our Piano Teacher written by Katherine E. Koester and published by Christian Faith Publishing, Incorporated. This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What makes a student continue with piano lessons their entire educational career? A great experience with music and teachers! This book can be read multiple times in a year! Our Piano Teacher is like a scrapbook of memories, relived and celebrated with each reading. The experiences learned from music and teachers have far-reaching life benefits for both students and adults. Readers can relate as students grapple with a myriad of challenges that are overcome with excellent coaching and hard work to produce soaring satisfaction year after year. You'll feel the endearing qualities of Our Piano Teacher, who is patient, kind, does not keep track of wrongs, does not boast, and has a special essence that keeps people begging to learn more! Music truly reaches all areas of educational subjects with its history and worldwide span. Our Piano Teacher celebrates teaching.
Download or read book Piano Pedagogy written by Gilles Comeau and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-01-11 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Piano Pedagogy: A Research and Information Guide provides a detailed outline of resources available for research and/or training in piano pedagogy. Like its companion volumes in the Routledge Music Bibliographies series, it serves beginning and advanced students and scholars as a basic guide to current research in the field. The book will includes bibliographies, research guides, encyclopedias, works from other disciplines that are related to piano pedagogy, current sources spanning all formats, including books, journals, audio and video recordings, and electronic sources.
Download or read book A Piano Teacher s Legacy written by Richard Chronister and published by . This book was released on 2005-01-01 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Richard Chronister was one of the pedagogy greats of his time. During the last forty years of the 20th century, he was a driving force for better piano teaching and better training of piano teachers. His influence reached from large universities to small independent studios, and his name was linked with both the most basic principles and the most recent research. His accomplishments were legendary. He started the first university degree program in piano pedagogy, served on six different faculties, and developed a new piano method. He was co-founder of the National Conference on Keyboard Pedagogy and the founder and editor of Keyboard Companion magazine. All his professional life he asked searching questions, such as: How can I build on children's innate love of music? How can I teach so that my students keep learning, practicing and making music? How can I teach my students to become independent learners? What can I apply to my teaching from discoveries of the past and of my own time? How can I become an acute observer of what my students are doing? And of what teachers whom I observe are doing? And of what I am doing as a teacher? This compendium contains Chronister's best answers to these questions and many more. They come from his articles, addresses and lectures. Whether speaking or writing, his style is always lucid, informal and engaging. He never pretends to have the final answer, and invited his audience to consider his advice and reach their own conclusions. This book deserves a place in the library of every serious piano teacher!
Download or read book Nineteenth Century Piano Music written by R. Larry Todd and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-08 with total page 485 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First Published in 2004. 19th-Century Piano Music focuses on the core composers of the 19th-century repertoire, beginning with 2 chapters giving a general overview of the repertoire and keyboard technique of the era, and then individual chapters on Beethoven, Schubert, Weber, Mendelssohn, Chopin, Schumann, Brahms, Liszt, and the women composers of the era, particularly focusing on Fanny Hensel and Clara Schumann.
Download or read book A Century of Recorded Music written by Timothy Day and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Looks at the history of recording technology and its effect on music, including artistic performance, listening habits, and audience participation.
Download or read book Etudes for Piano Teachers written by Stewart Gordon and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1995-02-23 with total page 155 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the "etudes" in Stewart Gordon's new book also focus on ideas which prepare piano teachers for meeting the problems encountered in piano performing and teaching. This major new collection on the piano teacher's art opens with an assessment of the role of the piano teacher, and goes on to explore various types of students and the challenge each presents: the moderately talented, but ambitious, student; the late beginner; the unusually gifted. Drawing on thirty years of teaching and performing, Gordon then bring fresh ideas to bear on the often-discussed areas of inner-hearing, pulse regulation, improvisation, sight-reading, and collaborative music making. There are sections on performance procedures, memorizing, pedalling, and historical performance practices; a carefully-balanced consideration of the role of the piano student and teacher; and realistic looks at the problems facing the profession today, the dynamics of a performing career, and the stages through which musicians' careers often pass. Designed to open up new avenues of inquiry, to provoke discussion and creative thinking, and to challenge and motivate students, these essays will be vital reading for all serious piano students and teachers.
Download or read book The Most Wanted Piano Teachers in the USA Description of 48 of the most sought after teachers artistry teaching methods personality with their biographical information written by Benjamin Saver and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Guide to the Pianist s Repertoire written by Maurice Hinson and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2013-12-03 with total page 1215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Guide to the Pianist's Repertoire continues to be the go-to source for piano performers, teachers, and students. Newly updated and expanded with more than 250 new composers, this incomparable resource expertly guides readers to solo piano literature and provides answers to common questions: What did a given composer write? What interesting work have I never heard of? How difficult is it? What are its special musical features? How can I reach the publisher? New to the fourth edition are enhanced indexes identifying black composers, women composers, and compositions for piano with live or recorded electronics; a thorough listing of anthologies and collections organized by time period and nationality, now including collections from Africa and Slovakia; and expanded entries to account for new material, works, and resources that have become available since the third edition, including websites and electronic resources. The "newest Hinson" will be an indispensible guide for many years to come.
Download or read book An Index to Articles Published in The Etude Magazine 1883 1957 Par t 1 written by Pamela Richardson Dennis and published by A-R Editions, Inc.. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 724 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As America's geography and societal demands expanded, the topics in The Etude magazine (first published in 1883) took on such important issues as women in music; immigration; transportation; Native American and African American composers and their music; World War I and II; public schools; new technologies (sound recordings, radio, and television); and modern music (jazz, gospel, blues, early 20th century composers) in addition to regular book reviews, teaching advice, interviews, biographies, and advertisements. Though a valued source particularly for private music teachers, with the de-emphasis on the professional elite and the decline in salon music, the magazine ceased publication in 1957. This Index to the articles in The Etude serves as a companion to E. Douglas Bomberger¿s 2004 publication on the music in The Etude. Published a little over fifty years after the final issue reached the public, this Index chronicles vocal and instrumental technique, composer biographies, position openings, department store orchestras, the design of a successful music studio, how to play an accordion, recital programs in music schools, and much more. The Index is a valuable tool for research, particularly in the music culture of American in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. With titles of these articles available, the doors are now open for further research in the years to come. The Index is published in two parts and sold as a set for $250.00.
Download or read book A Portrait of Contemporary U S Teachers of Piano written by Barbara Ann Stolz and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2023-05-15 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on historical and social science literatures and interviews with current piano teachers, the book explores the contemporary U.S. piano teacher through a social science lens.
Download or read book Music Sense and Nonsense written by Alfred Brendel and published by Biteback Publishing. This book was released on 2015-08-18 with total page 473 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alfred Brendel, one of the greatest pianists of our time, is renowned for his masterly interpretations of Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert and Liszt, and has been credited with rescuing from oblivion the piano music of Schubert's last years. Far from having merely one string to his bow, however, Brendel is also one of the world's most remarkable writers on music - possessed of the rare ability to bring the clarity and originality of expression that characterised his performances to the printed page. The definitive collection of his award-winning writings and essays, Music, Sense and Nonsense combines all of his work originally published in his two classic books, Musical Thoughts and Afterthoughts and Music Sounded Out, along with significant new material on a lifetime of recording, performance habits and reflections on life and art. As well as providing stimulating reading, this new edition provides a unique insight into the exceptional mind of one of the outstanding musicians of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Whether discussing Bach or Beethoven, Schubert or Schoenberg, Brendel's reflections are illuminating and challenging, a treasure for the specialist and the music lover alike.
Download or read book Fifty Years Experience of Pianoforte Teaching and Playing 1907 written by Oscar Beringer and published by . This book was released on 2008-06-01 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.
Download or read book A Piano Teacher s Legacy written by Richard Chronister and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
