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Piano Playing: With Piano Questions Answered (Classic Reprint)
Piano Playing With Piano Questions Answered - Classic Reprint Author:Josef Hofmann THE PIANO AND ITS PLAYER HE first requisite for one who wishes to become a musicianly and artistic pianist is a precise knowledge of the possibilities and limitations of the piano as an instrument. Having properly recognised them both, having thus staked off a stretch of ground for his activity, he must explore it to discover all the resources f... more »or tonal expression that are hidden within its pale. With these resources, however, he must be contented. He must, above all, never strive to rival the orchestra. For there is no necessity to attempt anything so foolish and so futile, since the gamut of expressions inherent to the piano is quite extensive enough to vouchsafe artistic results of the very highest order, provided, of course, that this gamut is used in an artistic manner. 3
Table of Contents
CONTENTS; PAGE; A Foreword VU; The Piano and Its Plates 3; General Rules 19; Correct Touch and Technic 34; The Use of the Pedal 41; Playing "In Style" 49; How Rubinstein Taught Me to Play 57; Indispensables in Pianistic Success 70
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