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Showing 1 to 17 of 17 for “"piano technique"”.
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Integrating Piano Technique, Physiology, and Motor Learning: Strategies for Performing the Chopin Etudes
… unique and standard within the genre of advanced piano literature. Having been composed as the instrument itself was standardized and on the heels of the didactic studies of the classical period, Chopin's études are widely heralded as exemplary pedagogical material for their uniform quality and …
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An evaluation of certain aspects of the study and teaching of piano technique
… displayed as they undertook to learn to play the piano. Starting from the assumption that most, if not all students would encounter such in the mastery of the piano, the study proceeded to identify several psychological concepts deemed necessary to an intelligent grasp of the problems confronting …
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A study of innovative piano technique in published works of selected composers from 1950-1975
This study surveys and categorizes new techniques of sound production for the pianoforte which have come into prominent use since 1950. In addition the project developes a series of ten study pieces (etudes) which aid advanced piano students in acquiring the basic techniques required to perform …
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Healthy Piano Technique and the Prevention of Professional Injuries: An Exploration of the Schmidt-Shklovskaya-Minsker Method and its Implementation in Piano Pedagogy
… focuses on the teaching method developed by two piano pedagogues whose work with pianists' professional injuries is widely known and appreciated in Russia. Anna Schmidt-Shklovskaya based her system on the views and practice of Ivan Kryzhanovsky, a musician and medical doctor who studied …
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An approach for the advanced pianist toward developing concepts and control of vertical and horizontal motion : the two fundamental directions of movement in piano technique
… offers a pedagogical approach to the advanced piano student who needs technique refinement in the areas of dynamic control and disjunct motion. The approach is based on the writings of Otto Ortmann and later writers who have followed and extended Ortmann's studies of piano technique. The …
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Larry Sitsky’s Century: A response to selected twentieth-century notation, associated piano techniques, and performance possibility
… with regard to notation and associated piano technique(s)—distinctive issues not commonly explored pedagogically. This study addresses specific notational and associated technical challenges in selected pieces from Century. The study also provides performative and pedagogical suggestions …
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A YEAR OF PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE: IMPROVING PIANO SKILLS TO BECOME A BETTER CHORAL DIRECTOR
Piano skills are extremely important to a choral teacher’s success, and I always considered my piano playing as a weak point in my teaching. The intent of my project was to dedicate a year of intensive practicing and performing as an accompanist in order to improve my piano technique, gain a wider …
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A YEAR OF PRACTICE AND PERFORMANCE: IMPROVING PIANO SKILLS TO BECOME A BETTER CHORAL DIRECTOR
Piano skills are extremely important to a choral teacher’s success, and I always considered my piano playing as a weak point in my teaching. The intent of my project was to dedicate a year of intensive practicing and performing as an accompanist in order to improve my piano technique, gain a wider …
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Interacting with the piano
This thesis explores the expansion of the piano performance environment, using technology to augment the sound, the playing area of the piano and its surroundings, and/or the performer's own body in controlling electronic elements of the music. In particular I examine the extension of piano …
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The Piano Sonata in the Musical Life of the Early 19th Century
… However, with the emergence of the modern piano, the sonata moved out of the domestic sphere. The expanded capability of the newly modified instrument helped many pianists to further develop piano technique, and soon they incorporated numerous difficult keyboard patterns into their sonata …
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Schumann and the Development of the Collaborative Relationship between Voice and Piano in Opus 48 Dichterliebe
… him solidifying his instrumental compositional technique. The year of 1840 to 1841, brought an abrupt change in his attitude about song composition and he went on with what has been described as his Liederjahr, in which he composed over 150 songs and several cycles including Dichterliebe, which …
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The Piano Works of Stefans Grové (1922-2014): A Study of Stylistic Influences, Technical Elements and Canon Formation in South African Art Music
… the most prolific contributors to the country’s piano literature, having written large-scale cycles as well as several miniatures for the instrument. This thesis engages with his more widely-performed oeuvre, as well as earlier works that are forgotten or not currently in the public domain. A …
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The influence of romanticism on the evolution of the transcendental etudes of Franz Liszt
… pianistic content of the juvenile etude pour le piano en douze exercices (1827) takes after the didactic exercises of Karl Czerny. The intermediate version, known as the Grandes Ãtudes (1839), was conceived at the height of Liszt's performing career and develops the principal thematic …
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Joaquín Larregla Urbieta (1865-1945). Vida, obra y técnica pianística
… the technical and mechanical perfection of the piano, in an era where the passion for travel and exploring the unique in art increased, which in turn heightened the presence of Spanish musicians in other countries and the arrival of great foreign figures in Spain, foreign musicians who are …
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New light on Nikolay Medtner as pianist and teacher
… of his life in the UK. He wrote mainly for the piano, composing 14 piano sonatas, three piano concertos, 108 songs, three violin sonatas, a piano quintet and more than 90 pieces for solo piano. Although he performed and recorded, and was considered a prominent composer while he was resident in …
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Il tocco pianistico: premesse storiche e sviluppi scientifici
… l’obiettivo di provare la politimbricità del pianoforte. A tal fine, ho indagato la relazione tra il gesto, la meccanica del pianoforte e il suono, problema sfiorato da alcuni maestri del Novecento, ma mai approfondito e sviscerato per ovvie ragioni riguardanti la mancanza di una tecnologia …