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Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Francis Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing  Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos  1917

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos 1917 written by James Francis Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2008-06 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Great pianists discuss technique, musical development, virtuoso artistry, much more. Rachmaninoff's Essentials of Artistic Playing, Busoni's Important Details in Piano Study, etc. Includes 2 introductory essays, artist biographies, more.

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Cooke and published by . This book was released on 2013-01-22 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An important and valuable series of personal educational conferences with renowned masters of the keyboard, presenting the most modern ideas upon the subjects of technic, interpretation, style and expression. 1. THE ARTIST'S LIFE 2. ARE PIANISTS BORN OR MADE? 3. THE STORY OF A WONDER-CHILD Pepito Arriola 4. THE PIANIST OF TO-MORROW Wilhelm Bachaus 5. ARTISTIC ASPECTS OF PIANO STUDY Harold Bauer 6. APPEARING IN PUBLIC Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler 7. IMPORTANT DETAILS IN PIANO STUDY Ferruccio Busoni 8. DISTINCTIVE PIANO PLAYING Teresa Carre-o 9. ESSENTIALS OF TOUCH Ossip Gabrilowitsch 10. THE REAL SIGNIFICANCE OF TECHNIC Leopold Godowsky 11. ANALYZING MASTERPIECES Katharine Goodson 12. PROGRESS IN PIANO STUDY Josef Hofmann 13. PIANO STUDY IN RUSSIA Josef Lhévinne 14. SEEKING ORIGINALITY Vladimir de Pachmann 15. MODERN PIANISTIC PROBLEMS Max Pauer 16. ESSENTIALS OF ARTISTIC PLAYING S. V. Rachmaninoff 17. SYSTEMATIC MUSICAL TRAINING A. Reisenauer 18. THE TRAINING OF THE VIRTUOSO E. Sauer 19. ECONOMY IN MUSIC STUDY X. Scharwenka 20. LEARNING A NEW PIECE E. Schelling 21. WHAT INTERPRETATION REALLY IS S. Stojowski (cover photograph courtesy of Ruben Vazquez)

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks With Foremost Virtuosos

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks With Foremost Virtuosos written by James Francis Cooke and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-06-24 with total page 479 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks With Foremost Virtuosos The father of a young woman who was preparing to become a virtuoso once applied to a famous musical educator for advice regarding the future career of his daughter. "I want her to become one of the greatest pianists America has ever produced," he said. "She has talent, good health, unlimited ambition, a good general education, and she is industrious." The educator thought for awhile, and then said, "It is very likely that your daughter will be successful in her chosen field, but the amount of grinding study she will be obliged to undergo to meet the towering standards of modem pianism is awful to contemplate. In the end she will have the flattery of the multitude, and, let us hope, some of their dollars as well. In return, she may have to sacrifice many of the comforts and pleasures which women covet. The more successful she is, the more of a nomad she must become. She will know but few days for years when she will not be compelled to practice for hours. She becomes a kind of chattel of the musical public. She will be harassed by ignorant critics and perhaps annoyed by unreliable managers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing

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  • Author : James Francis Cooke
  • Publisher : Andesite Press
  • Release : 2015-08-09
  • ISBN : 9781298601377
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Francis Cooke and published by Andesite Press. This book was released on 2015-08-09 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing

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  • Author : James Francis Cooke
  • Publisher : Nabu Press
  • Release : 2014-02
  • ISBN : 9781295717989
  • Pages : 478 pages

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Francis Cooke and published by Nabu Press. This book was released on 2014-02 with total page 478 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Book Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices

Download or read book Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices written by Kathleen Coessens and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-15 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Embodied experience and sensorial understandings in Western music The Western history of aesthetics is characterised by tension between theory and practice. Musicians listen, play, and then listen more profoundly in order to play differently, adapt the body, and sense the environment. They become deeply involved in the sensorial qualities of music practice. Artistic practice refers to the original meaning of aesthetics—the senses. Whereas Baumgarten and Goethe explored the relationship between sensibility and reason, sensation and thinking, later philosophers of aesthetics deemed the sensorial to be confused and unreliable and instead prioritised a cognitive or objective approach. Written by authors from the fields of philosophy, composition, performance, and artistic practice, Sensorial Aesthetics in Music Practices repositions aesthetics as a domain of the sensible and explores the interaction between artists, life, and environment. Aesthetics becomes a field of sensorial and embodied experience involving temporal and spatial influences, implicit knowledge, and human characteristics. Contributors: Kathleen Coessens (Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel, Orpheus Institute), Tim Ingold (University of Aberdeen), Michaël Levinas (Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris), Fabien Lévy (Hochschule für Musik Detmold), Lasse Thoresen (Norwegian Academy of Music), Vanessa Tomlinson (Queensland Conservatorium of Music), Salomé Voegelin (University of the Arts London)

Book Cultural Histories of Noise  Sound and Listening in Europe  1300   1918

Download or read book Cultural Histories of Noise Sound and Listening in Europe 1300 1918 written by Kirsten Gibson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-11-18 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cultural Histories of Noise, Sound and Listening in Europe, 1300-1918 presents a range of historical case studies on the sounding worlds of the European past. The chapters in this volume explore ways of thinking about sound historically, and seek to understand how people have understood and negotiated their relationships with the sounding world in Europe from the Middle Ages through to the early twentieth century. They consider, in particular: sound and music in the later Middle Ages; the politics of sound in the early modern period; the history of the body and perception during the Ancien Régime; and the sounds of the city in the nineteenth century and sound and colonial rule at the fin de siècle. The case studies also range in geographical orientation to include considerations not only of Britain and France, the countries most considered in European historical sound studies in English-language scholarship to date, but also Bosnia-Herzegovina, British Colonial India, Germany, Italy and Portugal. Out of this diverse group of case studies emerge significant themes that recur time and again, varying according to time and place: sound, power and identity; sound as a marker of power or violence; and sound, physiology and sensory perception and technologies of sound, consumption and meaning.

Book Off the Record

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  • Author : Neal Peres da Costa
  • Publisher : Oxford University Press
  • Release : 2012-03-20
  • ISBN : 0199920907
  • Pages : 378 pages

Download or read book Off the Record written by Neal Peres da Costa and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-20 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Off the Record is a revealing exploration of piano performing practices of the high Romantic era. Author and well-known keyboard player Neal Peres Da Costa bases his investigation on a range of early sound recordings (acoustic, piano roll and electric) that capture a generation of highly-esteemed pianists trained as far back as the mid-nineteenth-century. Placing general practices of late nineteenth-century piano performance alongside evidence of the stylistic idiosyncrasies of legendary pianists such as Carl Reinecke (1824-1910), Theodor Leschetizky (1830-1915), Camille Saint-Saëns (1838-1921) and Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), he examines prevalent techniques of the time--dislocation, unnotated arpeggiation, rhythmic alteration, tempo fluctuation--and unfolds the background and lineage of significant performer/pedagogues. Throughout, Peres Da Costa demonstrates that these early recordings do not simply capture the idiosyncrasies of aging musicians as has been commonly asserted, but in fact represent a range of established expressive practices of a lost age. An extensive collection of these fascinating and sometimes rare professional recordings of the Romantic age masters are available on a companion web site, and in addition, Peres Da Costa, himself a renowned period keyboardist, illustrates points made throughout the book with his own playing. Of essential value to student and professional pianists, historical musicologists of 19th and early 20th century performance practice, and also to the general music aficionado audience, Off the Record is an indispensable resource for scholarly research, performance inspiration, and listening enjoyment.

Book Sergei Rachmaninoff

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  • Author : Robert E. Cunningham Jr.
  • Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
  • Release : 2000-10-30
  • ISBN : 031309540X
  • Pages : 366 pages

Download or read book Sergei Rachmaninoff written by Robert E. Cunningham Jr. and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-10-30 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sergei Rachmaninoff was a renowned composer, pianist, and conductor. Because he was a member of the Russian aristocracy, he fled the country after the tsar's abdication, and eventually relocated in the United States. Many of his compositions are for piano, yet he also composed orchestral and symphony works, three operas, choral and liturgical works, some chamber works, and numerous songs. This guide catalogues his numerous works and performances, provides a detailed bibliography, and includes a discography of recordings released within the last half-century. Cross-referenced throughout, this volume should appeal to music and Rachmaninoff scholars who are looking for a comprehensive guide to further research.

Book Teaching and Learning

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  • Author : Charles Desforges
  • Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
  • Release : 2008-04-15
  • ISBN : 0470779780
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Teaching and Learning written by Charles Desforges and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2008-04-15 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of key articles on the psychology behind educational attainment. It brings together in one volume for students a set of accessible but influential papers, representing the best classic and cutting edge work in the field.

Book The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education

Download or read book The Pursuit of Excellence Through Education written by Michel Ferrari and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although specific definitions may change over time, few goals are considered more important to education than the pursuit of academic excellence. There are many different viewpoints on this issue today among educational psychologists and other social scientists. One particularly glaring fault line in the debate divides those who emphasize developing individual learning and those who focus on promoting cultural and institutional reform. These two perspectives are rarely addressed in a single volume. In this book, well-known theorists and researchers present a range of perspectives on how to promote excellence in education. This allows those who stress transformation of educational practice and those who emphasize individual abilities to speak to each, and invites readers to jointly consider the arguments for both positions, or for some synthesis of the two. The point is to consider how these two divergent viewpoints can be reconciled, or simply coordinated, in an effort to benefit both students and society at large. The main thesis is that excellence can be fostered without sacrificing equity, both of which are fundamental tenets of a democratic education. The issues addressed in this book have implications and relevance for school reform efforts and across the fields of educational psychology, curriculum and instruction, philosophy of education, and educational leadership. The volume provides a unique source for students and teachers in various disciplines who want to gain a broader and more integrated view of the nature and development of excellence through education.

Book Great Pianists on Piano Playing

Download or read book Great Pianists on Piano Playing written by James Francis Cooke and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library

Download or read book Quarterly Bulletin of the Providence Public Library written by Providence Public Library (R.I.) and published by . This book was released on 1918 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler

Download or read book Fannie Bloomfield Zeisler written by Beth Abelson Macleod and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2015-06-15 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the foremost piano virtuosi of her time, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler reliably filled Carnegie Hall. As a "new woman," she simultaneously embraced family life and forged an independent career built around a repertoire of the German music she tirelessly championed. Yet after her death she faded into obscurity. In this new biography, Beth Abelson Macleod reintroduces a figure long, and unjustly, overlooked by music history. Trained in Vienna, Bloomfield-Zeisler significantly advanced the development of classical music in the United States. Her powerful and sensitive performances, both in recital and with major orchestras, won her followers across the United States and Europe and often provided her American audiences with their first exposure to the pieces she played. The European-style salon in her Chicago home welcomed musicians, scientists, authors, artists, and politicians, while her marriage to attorney Sigmund Zeisler placed her at the center of a historical moment when Sigmund defended the anarchists in the 1886 Haymarket trial. In its re-creation of a musical and social milieu, Fannie Bloomfield-Zeisler paints a vivid portrait of a dynamic artistic life.

Book The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music

Download or read book The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music written by Mark Doffman and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-11-01 with total page 617 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Music represents one of humanity's most vivid contemplations on the nature of time itself. The ways that music can modify, intensify, and even dismantle our understanding of time's passing is at the foundation of musical experience, and is common to listeners, composers, and performers alike. The Oxford Handbook of Time in Music provides a range of compelling new scholarship that examines the making of musical time, its effects and structures. Bringing together philosophical, psychological, and socio-cultural understandings of time in music, the chapters highlight the act of 'making' not just as cultural construction but also in terms of the perceptual, cognitive underpinnings that allow us to 'make' sense of time in music. Thus, the Handbook is a unique synthesis of divergent perspectives on the nature of time in music. With its focus on contemporary music (while paying attention to some of the generative temporalities of the nineteenth century), the volume establishes the richness and complexity of so much current music-making and in the process overcomes historic demarcations between art and popular musics.

Book Catalogs

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  • Author : Harold Reeves (Firm)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1919
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 700 pages

Download or read book Catalogs written by Harold Reeves (Firm) and published by . This book was released on 1919 with total page 700 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: