Adaptive Strategies for Small-handed Pianists
Title | Adaptive Strategies for Small-handed Pianists PDF eBook |
Author | Lora Deahl |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2017 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0190616857 |
This comprehensive study offers practical strategies for overcoming the unique challenges of practicing and performing as a small-handed pianist. Informed by established scientific and pedagogical principles and illustrated by hundreds of examples, it is an incomparable resource for pianists and teachers.
Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists
Title | Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists PDF eBook |
Author | Lora Deahl |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 305 |
Release | 2017-10-27 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0190850183 |
Adaptive Strategies for Small-Handed Pianists brings together information from biomechanics, ergonomics, physics, anatomy, medicine, and piano pedagogy to focus on the subject of small-handedness. The first comprehensive study of its kind, the book opens with an overview of historical, anatomical, and pedagogical perspectives and redresses long-held biases concerning those who struggle at the piano because of issues with hand size. A discussion of work efficiency, the human anatomy, and the constraints of physics serves as the theoretical basis for a focused analysis of healthy movement and piano technique as they relate to small-handedness. Separate chapters deal with specific alternative approaches: redistribution, refingering, strategies to maximize reach and power, and musical solutions for technical problems. Richly illustrated with hundreds of examples from a wide range of piano repertoire, the book is an incomparable resource for piano teachers and students, written in language that is accessible to a broad audience. It balances scholastic rigor with practical experience in the field to demonstrate that the unique physical and musical needs of the small-handed can be addressed in sensitive and appropriate ways.
Teaching Music to Students with Autism
Title | Teaching Music to Students with Autism PDF eBook |
Author | Alice M. Hammel |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2020 |
Genre | Education |
ISBN | 0190063173 |
This book is a comprehensive practical guide for music eductors who work with students with autism. This second edition offers fully up-to-date information on diagnosis, advocacy, and a collegial team-approach, as well as communication, cognition, behavior, sensory, and socialization challenges. Many 'real-life' vignettes and classroom snapshots are included to transfer theory to practice.
After the Golden Age
Title | After the Golden Age PDF eBook |
Author | Kenneth Hamilton |
Publisher | OUP USA |
Pages | 321 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0195178262 |
Hamilton dissects the oft invoked myth of a 'Great Tradition', or Golden Age of pianism. He then goes on to discuss the performance style great pianists, from Liszt to Paderewski, and delves into the far from inevitable development of the piano recital.
The Complete Collaborator
Title | The Complete Collaborator PDF eBook |
Author | Martin Katz |
Publisher | |
Pages | 304 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | 0195367952 |
Martin Katz puts his long career as partner to celebrated soloists to good use in order to provide the knowledge and tools for any pianist to accompany beautifully. Every subject relating to collaboration is discussed, with recorded examples by the author to serve as audible demonstrations of his ideas. For the interested beginner as well as the working professional, everything to promote artistic and practical collaboration is here.
Mastering the Art of Performance
Title | Mastering the Art of Performance PDF eBook |
Author | Stewart Gordon |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 217 |
Release | 2006 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 0195177436 |
This manual gives musicians and other performers practical insights on every aspect of performance. Through real life examples and pre-performance exercises, Gordon also offers detailed and workable suggestions for solving the issues and problems associated with live performance.
Natural Fingering
Title | Natural Fingering PDF eBook |
Author | Jon Verbalis |
Publisher | Oxford University Press, USA |
Pages | 273 |
Release | 2012-05-31 |
Genre | Music |
ISBN | 019978163X |
In further developing Chopin's thinking on pianism, this book explores the keyboard's topographical symmetry and the revolutionary impact of symmetrical inversion on piano technique and pedagogy. With copious excerpts from the extant repertoire, this is the first comprehensive discussion of fingering solutions for pianists since Hummel's monumental treatise of 1828.