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Book The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long

Download or read book The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long written by John Ellis and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2024-03-05 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Marguerite Long, the most important French female pianist of the 20th century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in Paris. The Pedagogical Writings of Marguerite Long presents English translations of the two major contributions of Marguerite Long to the literature of piano pedagogy. These translations of her pedagogical works, Le Piano and La Petite Méthode de piano, provide a window to the old French school of pianism as modernized by Long. Le Piano is a remarkable text offering piano playing techniques and pragmatic and philosophical musings and observations about life, musicians, careers, and more. La Petite Méthode de piano is a personal manifesto about how to introduce children to music. Both works are treasures revealing Long's lifelong commitment to teaching and they are still stunningly relevant. In addition, John Ellis analyzes each work and puts it in historical context. He places special emphasis on Long's illustrious international career, her teaching, her rivalry with Alfred Cortot, and the impact of sexism on her life and work. Ellis addresses the eclipse of Long's reputation by that of Cortot and fills a gap in the knowledge of Long's place in the history of pedagogical heritage.

Book Marguerite Long

Download or read book Marguerite Long written by Cecilia Dunoyer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1993-12-22 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cecilia Dunoyer has written a thoughtful and carefully researched work. Not only is her book crammed with information on French music, performers, and composers, it also is highly readable." --Piano & Keyboard "Cecilia Dunoyer's new book presents an engaging portrait of the woman once esteemed as the grande dame of French music." --Notes "It is a fascinating story from beginning to end... " --American Music Teacher "Dunoyer's thorough, accurate, well-written biography is the first of this important artist and, as such, worthy of many a music library's attention." --Booklist Marguerite Long, the most important French woman pianist of our century, left her stamp on a whole epoch of musical life in Paris. Long was a virtuoso performer--working closely with Debussy, Faur , and Ravel--and a tireless and demanding pedagogue. With violinist Jacques Thibaud, she founded a prestigious international competition that continues to launch the careers of young musicians. Illustrated.

Book The Pianist s Guide to Pedaling

Download or read book The Pianist s Guide to Pedaling written by Joseph Banowetz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2022-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . a most precious book which every serious pianist and teacher must own." —Journal of the American Liszt Society Joseph Banowetz and four distinguished contributors provide practical suggestions and musicological insights on the pedaling of keyboard works from the 18th to the 20th century.

Book Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms s Instrumental Music

Download or read book Allusion as Narrative Premise in Brahms s Instrumental Music written by Jacquelyn Sholes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-24 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who inspired Johannes Brahms in his art of writing music? In this book, Jacquelyn E. C. Sholes provides a fresh look at the ways in which Brahms employed musical references to works of earlier composers in his own instrumental music. By analyzing newly identified allusions alongside previously known musical references in works such as the B-Major Piano Trio, the D-Major Serenade, the First Piano Concerto, and the Fourth Symphony, among others, Sholes demonstrates how a historical reference in one movement of a work seems to resonate meaningfully, musically, and dramatically with material in other movements in ways not previously recognized. She highlights Brahms's ability to weave such references into broad, movement-spanning narratives, arguing that these narratives served as expressive outlets for his complicated, sometimes conflicted, attitudes toward the material to which he alludes. Ultimately, Brahms's music reveals both the inspiration and the burden that established masters such as Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Schubert, Schumann, Wagner, and especially Beethoven represented for him as he struggled to emerge with his own artistic voice and to define and secure his unique position in music history.

Book Master Classes with Menahem Pressler

Download or read book Master Classes with Menahem Pressler written by William Brown and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menahem Pressler is a world-renowned piano soloist, master class teacher, and member of the acclaimed Beaux Arts Trio. In this companion to his first book, Menahem Pressler: Artistry in Piano Teaching, Pressler’s former student William Brown brings together Pressler’s teachings on an additional 37 piano masterworks by Johann Sebastian Bach, Samuel Barber, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Frédéric Chopin, Claude Debussy, George Frideric Handel, Franz Joseph Haydn, Franz Liszt, Felix Mendelssohn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Franz Schubert, and Robert Schumann. With over 200 musical examples and measure-by-measure lessons on masterpieces of the piano repertoire as well as instructions on phrasing, fingering, imagery, dynamic contrasts, pianistic touches, articulation, and practice drills, pianists of all levels will benefit from Pressler’s expertise.

Book The Performing Pianist s Guide to Fingering

Download or read book The Performing Pianist s Guide to Fingering written by Joseph Banowetz and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-09 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages. Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions, he strives to help the advanced pianist think through the composer's musical intent and the actual performance tempo and dynamics when selecting the fingering. Banowetz also includes valuable contributions by Philip Fowke, who examines redistributions by Benno Moiseiwitsch in Rachmaninoff's compositions, and Nancy Lee Harper, who explores the often very different approaches to fingering found in keyboard music of the Baroque era. The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering will be useful to the advanced pianist and to instructors looking to guide students in improving this important art.

Book Bart  k for Piano

    Book Details:
  • Author : David Yeomans
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2000-06-22
  • ISBN : 9780253213839
  • Pages : 180 pages

Download or read book Bart k for Piano written by David Yeomans and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2000-06-22 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . detailed and thorough . . . a wealth of information . . . David Yeomans deserves our thanks for a job exceedingly well done." —American Music Teacher " . . . a must for pianists . . . " —American Reference Book Annual "David Yeomans's study is certainly to be recommended for all good music libraries, pianists and students of Bartók." —The Music Review "Although there are currently more than 15 books in print about composer Béla Bartók, this short volume is unique in its focus on his complete oeuvre for solo piano. . . . Recommended for pianists, piano teachers, and students from lower-division undergraduate level and above." —Choice " . . . the entire book is indispensable for any of us before we play another Bartók piece." —Clavier "This work collects in one place an enormous number of 'facts' about the piano music of Bartók . . . for planning concerts and student repertoire, and as a survey of an important body of 20th-century music, this listing is valuable." —Library Journal This chronological listing of more than 400 pieces and movements presents in convenient form essential information about each of Bartók's solo piano works, including its various editions, timing, level of difficulty, pertinent remarks by the composer, and bibliographical references to it.

Book Piano Duet Repertoire

    Book Details:
  • Author : Cameron McGraw
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2001
  • ISBN : 9780253214614
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Piano Duet Repertoire written by Cameron McGraw and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A classic reference--to share with a friend.

Book Nineteenth Century French Song

Download or read book Nineteenth Century French Song written by Barbara Meister and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1998-04-22 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Song by song, this comprehensive study addresses each composer's complete works for solo voice and piano. When necessary, errors in popular published editions are pointed out and corrected. For each song, the full French text is given, followed by Barbara Meister's translation."--Page 4 of cover.

Book A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators

Download or read book A Handbook for Beginning Choral Educators written by Walter Lamble and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-06-16 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book comes from a very fine music educator with exceptional experience, who has common sense and a real understanding of what a beginning teacher should know. The book puts into print issues that are widely discussed at conventions and at conferences, and that are common knowledge for the experienced teacher, but that are not covered in a music education class. It is a plain and simple book, written in a language that is easy for anyone going into the profession to understand. It makes valuable suggestions in just about every aspect of the role of a choral music teacher." -- Michael Schwartzkopf, Professor of Music Education, Indiana University School of Music

Book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Download or read book Music Education in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance written by Susan Forscher Weiss and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2010-07-16 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What were the methods and educational philosophies of music teachers in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance? What did students study? What were the motivations of teacher and student? Contributors to this volume address these topics and other -- including gender, social status, and the role of the Church -- to better understand the identities of music teachers and students from 650 to 1650 in Western Europe. This volume provides an expansive view of the beginnings of music pedagogy, and shows how the act of learning was embedded in the broader context of the early Western art music tradition.

Book Intertextuality in Western Art Music

Download or read book Intertextuality in Western Art Music written by Michael Leslie Klein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first book-length consideration of questions relating to music and meaning.

Book Accenting the Classics

    Book Details:
  • Author : Deborah Mawer
  • Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
  • Release : 2023-03-14
  • ISBN : 1837650322
  • Pages : 383 pages

Download or read book Accenting the Classics written by Deborah Mawer and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2023-03-14 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings new insights to the music of well-known European composers by telling a fascinating, little-known story about French music publishing, specifically through the lens of Jacques Durand's Édition Classique. French composers, performers and musicologists acted as editors of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European 'classics', primarily for piano. Among these editors were Fauré, Saint-Saëns, Debussy, Ravel and Dukas; the objects of their enquiries included core works by Rameau, Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Schumann and Chopin. Presenting six composer-editor case studies, the volume shows that the French 'accent', both musical and cultural, upon this predominantly Austro-German music was highly varied. Editorial responses range from scholarly approaches to those directed by performance or compositional agendas, and from pan-European to strongly patriotic stances. Intriguing intersections are revealed between old and new, and between French and cross-European canons. Beyond editing, the book explores the Édition's role in pedagogy and performance, including by pianists Robert Casadesus and Yvonne Loriod, and in the reassertion of contemporary French composition, especially regarding innovation around neoclassicism. It will interest a wide readership, including musicologists, performers and concert-goers, cultural historians and other humanities scholars.

Book Music as Philosophy

    Book Details:
  • Author : Michael Spitzer
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2021-08-31
  • ISBN : 0253060885
  • Pages : 437 pages

Download or read book Music as Philosophy written by Michael Spitzer and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2021-08-31 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beethoven's late style is the language of his ninth symphony, the Missa Solemnis, the last piano sonatas and string quartets, the Diabelli Variations, the Bagatelles, as well as five piano sonatas, five string quartets, and several smaller piano works. Historically, these works are seen as forging a bridge between the Classical and Romantic traditions: in terms of their musical structure, they continue to be regarded as revolutionary. Spitzer's book examines these late works in light of the musical and philosophical writings of the German intellectual Theodor Adorno, and in so doing, attempts to reconcile the conflicting approaches of musical semiotics and critical theory. He draws from various approaches to musical, linguistic, and aesthetic meaning, relating Adorno to such writers as Derrida, Benjamin, and Habermas, as well as contemporary music theorists. Through analyses of Beethoven's use of specific musical techniques (including neo-Baroque fugues and counterpoint), Spitzer suggests that the composer's last works offer a philosophical and musical critique of the Enlightenment, and in doing so created the musical language of premodernism.

Book From Sight to Sound

    Book Details:
  • Author : Nicole M. Brockmann
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2009-04-07
  • ISBN : 0253220645
  • Pages : 169 pages

Download or read book From Sight to Sound written by Nicole M. Brockmann and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2009-04-07 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Sight to Sound provides practical and creative techniques for classical improvisation for musicians of all levels and instruments, solo or in ensembles. These exercises build aural and communicative skills, instrumental technique, and musical understanding. When students use their instruments to execute and improvise on theoretical concepts, they make vivid connections between abstract ideas and their own playing. This then allows students to unite performance with music theory, ear-training, historical style and context, chamber music skills, and listening skills. Many of the exercises in this book are designed for players working in pairs or small groups to encourage performers to communicate with one another and build an atmosphere of trust in which creativity and spontaneity may flourish.

Book NHAMW

    Book Details:
  • Author : James R. Briscoe
  • Publisher : Indiana University Press
  • Release : 2004-08-11
  • ISBN : 9780253216830
  • Pages : 542 pages

Download or read book NHAMW written by James R. Briscoe and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-08-11 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This anthology of musical scores is a new edition of a text that has been widely used in courses in women's music. James R. Briscoe's New Historical Anthology compiles fifty-five compositions by forty-six women composers from the ancient Greeks to the present. Each work is introduced by an informative essay by a specialist in the field, with recommendations for further reading."--BOOK JACKET.

Book Historical Harpsichord Technique

Download or read book Historical Harpsichord Technique written by Yonit Lea Kosovske and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2011-07-11 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yonit Lea Kosovske surveys early music and writing about keyboard performance with the aim of facilitating the development of an expressive tone in the modern player. Reviewing the work of the pedagogues and performers of the late Renaissance through the late Baroque, she gives special emphasis to la douceur du toucher or a gentle touch. Other topics addressed include posture, early pedagogy, exercises, articulation, and fingering patterns. Illustrated with musical examples as well as photos of the author at the keyboard, Historical Harpsichord Technique can be used for individual or group lessons and for amateurs and professionals.