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- ISBN 9781442232655
- Weight: 576g
- Dimensions: 161 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 17 Sep 2015
- Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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In The Pianist’s Craft 2, pianist and scholar Richard P. Anderson gathers together a new collection of essays by renowned performing artists and teachers and discusses the preparation, pedagogy, and performance of selected works by an entirely different set of composers whose works are standard in the piano literature. In this volume, readers will find an invaluable collection of contributions on C.P.E. Bach, Antonio Soler, Felix Mendelssohn, Gabriel Fauré, Erno Dohnányi, Francis Poulenc, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Dmitri Kabalevsky, Alberto Ginastera, Aaron Copland, Samuel Barber, Olivier Messiaen, and John Cage.
The contributors—all nationally and internationally recognized 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 an individual composer, 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—information otherwise available only in conferences, master classes, and private lessons.
This collection, with more than 250 musical illustrations, 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.
Richard P. Anderson is professor of piano at the School of Music of Brigham Young University. He teaches piano performance and pedagogy, serves as the group piano coordinator, and has taught music theory and composition. He is the editor of The Pianist’s Craft: Mastering the Works of Great Composers (Scarecrow Press, 2012), has published two college-level textbooks, and has contributed to Clavier and the Piano Pedagogy Forum.
Contributors:
Hilary Demske, Alexandre Dossin, Timothy Ehlen, Robin Hancock, Joel Hastings, Scott Holden, Caroline Hong, Jeffrey Jacob, David Korevaar, John Milbauer, Louis Nagel, Barbara Nissman, Timothy Shafer, Christopher Taylor, and Jerry Wong
