Microsoft Word - Piano Book.docx
paintings to England to be sold to help him get out of the difficulties caused by the Napoleonic wars. Unfortunately the boat ca ...
stay in contact with the string as long as one’s finger is held down. Some device must be devised to allow the hammer to rebound ...
instrument’s responsiveness to keyboard touch, which allows the pianist to produce notes at different dynamic levels by controll ...
use in authentic instrument performances of his music. The pianos of Mozart’s day had a softer, clearer tone and less sustaining ...
The sostenuto pedal was invented in 1844 by Boisselot and improved by the Steinway firm in 1874. Over-stringing was invented by ...
When preparing for a piano examination select those pieces from the set pieces that suit your hands and you enjoy playing. It is ...
chances are that the examiner will too. When the examiner’s report arrives read it and learn from it. FACSIMILE EDITIONS Facsimi ...
play, for he kept talking all the while himself, and yet no point of it escaped him, as I could tell by his expressions and gest ...
them up to the surface, so that they gleam out at you one by one, like stars! I often think of what Tausig said once: “Oh, compa ...
Tausig is so hasty and impatient that to be in his classes must be a fearful ordeal. Fräulein H. began, and she has remarkable t ...
to a much greater degree than the then usual method, the possibility of the most beautiful legato in the fastest tempo with an a ...
The range of the fortepiano at the time of its invention was about four octaves and this was gradually increased. Mozart wrote h ...
The first music specifically written for fortepiano dates from this period. It was the ‘Sonate di cimbalo di piano’ of 1732 by L ...
on a modern piano and the descent of the key was only about one half as much. Thus playing the Viennese fortepiano involved noth ...
day, was an important innovator in the evolution of the fortepiano into the piano. It shipped a piano to Beethoven in Vienna whi ...
‘Fortepiano’ is Italian for ‘loud-soft’ just as the formal name for the modern piano, ‘pianoforte’, is Italian for ‘soft-loud’. ...
escapement action, which permitted a note to be repeated even if the key had not yet risen to its maximum vertical position. Thi ...
concerto at the Musical Festival of the Allgemeiner Deutscher Musikverein, of which he was the honorary President, and which was ...
Arthur Friedheim (1859-1932) should not be confused wih Ignaz Friedman (1882-1948) or Carl Friedberg (1872-1955), both of whom w ...
Timing proportions Column 1 shows the timing up to the tonic recapitulation AM. Column 2 shows the total performance timing AB. ...
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