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dependent on springs which are prone to wear and tear. Upright pianos have the advantage over grand pianos that they are more co ...
The soundboard is the most crucial part of the piano. In quality pianos the soundboard is made of solid spruce, that is, spruce ...
which have only one. The strings are spaced too closely to permit a true ‘una corda’ effect because if shifted far enough to str ...
B Locrian Useful mnemonics are ‘I don’t play loud music after lunch’ or ‘I don’t particularly like modes a lot’. Each of the mod ...
Kodály, Holst, Falla and Bartók. Chopin used modes in his mazurkas for piano, Liszt used modes in his piano Sonata and later pia ...
The first edition of the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata was first published in Vienna by Cappi and advertised in the Wiener Zeitung on 3 Mar ...
Beethoven himself played parts of his own sonatas at the lessons. Czerny was the piano teacher of Franz Liszt and a close friend ...
just as Chopin did later in his mazurkas, said in the 1830’s when the piano tone had been considerably increased, that in the fi ...
It may be argued that Liszt supported the traditional pedalling. If he did, we do not know on what basis. Anton Rubinstein’s vie ...
If it is argued that Bülow and Lebert were of the view that Beethoven’s original intention was to mandate the traditional pedall ...
The edition by Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) of the Beethoven Sonatas was published by Simon & Schuster in 1935 and the fifth r ...
Artur Schnabel wrote in his Editor’s Preface to his edition of the Beethoven Sonatas: ‘Quite often the Editor was guided by the ...
suggest that the damper-raising pedal should be depressed throughout changes in harmony and melody, thereby producing a confused ...
disappeared in music intended for the heavier, English-style piano by the year 1800; it was only in music for the ‘Viennese’ ins ...
Czerny says ‘[I]n this forte, the shifting pedal is also relinquished, which otherwise Beethoven was accustomed to employ throug ...
Robert Taub, in ‘Playing the Beethoven Piano Sonatas’ (Amadeus Press, Portland Oregon, 2002) stated at pages 124 and 125: ‘I thi ...
A number of Beethoven’s markings in his other compositions involve an intentional blurring of two harmonies, tonic and dominant. ...
Beethoven completed the ‘Moonlight’ Sonata in 1801 and it was published in 1802. He composed it, and expected it to be played at ...
A.J. Hipkins in his article ‘Sordini’ in Sir G.Grove’s Dictionary of Music and Musicians (referred to in an article in the Music ...
Some months later I saw for the first time Schnabel’s edition of the Beethoven Sonatas. In individual footnotes Schnabel advocat ...
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