Author: Denes AgayPublisher: Yorktown Music
ISBN: 9780825680335
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
The Joy of French Piano Music
Author: Denes AgayPublisher: Yorktown Music
ISBN: 9780825680335
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music
Author: Lesley A. WrightPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317081633
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 254
Book Description
Perspectives on the Performance of French Piano Music offers a range of approaches central to the performance of French piano music of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The contributors include scholars and active performers who see performance not as an independent activity but as a practice enriched by a wealth of historical and analytical approaches. To underline the usefulness of contextual understanding for performance, each author highlights the choices performers must confront with examples drawn from particular repertoires and composers. Topics explored include editorial practice, the use of early recordings, emergent disciplines such as analysis-and-performance, and traditions passed down from teacher to student. Themes that emerge demonstrate the importance of editions as a form of communication, the challenges of notation, the significance of detail and of deeper continuity, the importance of performing and teaching traditions, and the influence of cross disciplinary frameworks. A link to a set of performed examples on the frenchpianomusic.com website allows readers to hear and compare performances and interpretations of the music discussed. The volume will appeal to musicologists and analysts interested in performance, performers, students, and piano teachers.
Images and Ideas in Modern French Piano Music
Author: Siglind BruhnPublisher: Pendragon Press
ISBN: 9780945193951
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
Languages : en
Pages : 464
Book Description
In our visually-oriented society, music appears to stand apart from other arts. Yet just as a poet can write a poem whose focus is a painting, so musicians have composed scores based on poems, paintings, and other non-musical art forms. In instrumental music such reinterpretations are especially intriguing as the verbal or visual stimulus does not appear in performance but is rendered in musical form. In this study, Siglind Bruhn investigates how three French composers of the twentieth century, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel, and Olivier Messiaen, express extra-musical subtexts in their piano works. She shows how the relation between the subtexts and the musical works can be broadly catagorized in terms of pictoriality and interiority. In all cases, Bruhn analyzes each musical piece and each source text in its entirety and in depth, drawing on her broad background in both literary and musical interpretation of the twentieth century. For pianists who seek to better understand an individual work, for scholars in the growing field of musical hermeneutics, and for lovers of music in general, this volume explores and makes explicit connections between music and other arts.
Relax with French Impressionist Piano
Author: Samantha WardPublisher:
ISBN: 9781847614018
Category : Piano music
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
(Piano). Part of a new series of piano music books edited by British concert pianist Samantha Ward, and designed primarily to be played at home, simply for pleasure. Selected for their relaxing qualities, the pieces in this volume range from well-known classics to delightful lesser-known gems. Featuring arrangements of pieces by French Impressionist composers, the collection is of an easy/intermediate level so a competent amateur pianist will have little difficulty in mastering the pieces.
The Joy Of... First Year Piano
Author: Denes AgayPublisher: Yorktown Music Press
ISBN: 1783231432
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 80
Book Description
Dennis Agay. A method and repertory for the beginner. Optional duet part for some pieces. All in large notes, very clear and easy to read.
French piano music of the early 20th century
Author: French Piano Music, Parts 1-2
Author: Clavier
Author: The Piano Works of Claude Debussy
Author: E. Robert SchmitzPublisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486172759
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 260
Book Description
Part biography, part criticism, and part analysis, this fascinating study of one of music's greatest geniuses is above all an authoritative commentary on the entire corpus of Debussy's work for solo piano. Includes 21 illustrations.
Author: Norman Demuth