Susan Tomes

Speaking the Piano

Reflections on Learning and Teaching

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This is a book to appeal to a wide range of readers - pianists of every level from beginner to professional, piano teachers, musicians of all kinds, and the broader community of music-lovers.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 278
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Juni 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 227mm x 149mm x 32mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9781783273256
• ISBN-10: 1783273259
• Artikelnr.: 50910963

Autorenporträt

Susan Tomes

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction Enlisting the imagination Pretending to be other people Why
don't people play better? Grappling with the instrument Words and signs
Tempo is character Connecting the beats Sensing the style Imagery, positive
and negative Different physiques The inescapability of one's own nature
What we talk about in lessons The benefit of hindsight Fusion cooking
'You'll find the black notes play louder than the white ones' 'For me this
is like jazz' Is playing the notes enough to reveal the music? To sway or
not to sway? How important is it to hear the sound? Beethoven among the
Alpine flowers Not all those who wander are lost The sound of two hands
clapping Music lights up the brain Epilogue