Piano Mastery

About this eBook

Author

Brower, Harriette, 1869-1928

Title

Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers

Credits

E-text prepared by Chuck Greif and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team

Language

English

LoC Class

MT: Music: Musical instruction and study, Composition

Subject

Pianists

Category

Text

eBook-No.

15604

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/15604

Release Date

April 11, 2005

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.PIANO MASTERY — TALKS WITH MASTER PIANISTS AND TEACHERS — AN ACCOUNT OF A VON BÜLOW CLASS, HINTS ON INTERPRETATION, BY TWO AMERICAN TEACHERS (DR. WILLIAM MASON AND WILLIAM H. SHERWOOD) AND A SUMMARY BY THE AUTHOR — BY
2. 2.HARRIETTE BROWER — Author of "The Art of the Pianist" — WITH SIXTEEN PORTRAITS — NEW YORK FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY PUBLISHERS — 1915
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.ILLUSTRATIONS
5. 5.PRELUDE — TO AMERICAN PIANO TEACHERS AND STUDENTS — PIANO MASTERY
6. 6.IGNACE JAN PADEREWSKI — CLEARNESS A MUST PRINCIPLE — FINGERING — CORRECT MOTION — STUDYING EFFECTS — INTERPRETATION
7. 7.ERNEST SCHELLING — THE HAND OF A PIANIST
8. 8.ERNESTO CONSOLO — MAKING THE PIANO A MUSICAL INSTRUMENT
9. 9.SIGISMOND STOJOWSKI — MIND IN PIANO STUDY — NATURAL TECHNIC — KEEPING UP A REPERTOIRE — FILLING IN A PASSAGE
10. 10.RUDOLPH GANZ — CONSERVING ENERGY IN PIANO PRACTISE
11. 11.TINA LERNER — AN AUDIENCE IS THE BEST TEACHER
12. 12.ETHEL LEGINSKA — RELAXATION THE KEYNOTE OF MODERN PIANO PLAYING
13. 13.BERTHA FIERING TAPPER — MASTERING PIANISTIC PROBLEMS
14. 14.CARL M. ROEDER — PROBLEMS OF PIANO TEACHERS — FOUNDATIONAL EXERCISES — USE OF STUDIES — BOOKS THAT ARE HELPFUL — IN REGARD TO INTERPRETATION — QUESTION OF PERSONALITY
15. 15.KATHARINE GOODSON — AN ARTIST AT HOME — MEMORIZING BY ANALYSIS — A PIANO HAND
16. 16.MARK HAMBOURG — FORM, TECHNIC, AND EXPRESSION — LOW HAND POSITION — AMOUNT OF PRACTISE
17. 17.TOBIAS MATTHAY — WATCHING THE ARTIST TEACHER AT WORK
18. 18.HAROLD BAUER — THE QUESTION OF PIANO TONE — VARIETY OF TONE — AVOID RESTRICTING RULES — THE QUESTION OF VELOCITY — OBTAINING POWER
19. 19.A VISIT TO RAOUL PUGNO — TRAINING THE CHILD — TRAINING THE CHILD
20. 20.THUEL BURNHAM — THE "MELODY" AND "COLORATURA" HAND — PRINCIPLES OF TOUCH — MELODY HAND — THE TECHNICAL HAND — ASSIMILATION OF PRINCIPLES — MEMORIZING — OCTAVE STUDIES — KEEPING UP REPERTOIRE — DETAILS OF PRACTISE
21. 21.EDWIN HUGHES — SOME ESSENTIALS OF PIANO PLAYING — TONE PRODUCTION — RHYTHM IN PIANO PLAYING — ABOUT MEMORIZING — KEEPING TECHNIC IN REPAIR — AMERICAN VERSUS EUROPEAN CONDITIONS
22. 22.FERRUCCIO BUSONI — AN ARTIST AT HOME
23. 23.ADELE AUS DER OHE — ANOTHER ARTIST AT HOME — LETTING THE HAND FIND ITSELF
24. 24.ELEANOR SPENCER — MORE LIGHT ON LESCHETIZKY'S IDEAS — MEMORIZING — POWER AND VELOCITY
25. 25.ARTHUR HOCHMAN — HOW THE PIANIST CAN COLOR TONE WITH ACTION AND EMOTION — FOUR REQUISITES FOR PIANISTS — MAKING CLIMAXES PIANISSIMO — WE DO NOT WANT CUT-AND-DRIED PERFORMANCES — DISSECTION OF DETAILS
26. 26.TERESA CARREÑO — EARLY TECHNICAL TRAINING — 580 TECHNICAL EXERCISES — VALUE OF TRANSPOSING
27. 27.WILHELM BACHAUS — TECHNICAL PROBLEMS DISCUSSED — OVERHAULING ONE'S TECHNIC — MODERN PIANO MUSIC — A BRAHMS CONCERTO
28. 28.ALEXANDER LAMBERT — AMERICAN AND EUROPEAN TEACHERS — POWER WITHOUT EFFORT
29. 29.FANNIE BLOOMFIELD ZEISLER — THE SCOPE OF PIANO TECHNIC — WHAT TECHNIC INCLUDES — EACH PUPIL A DIFFERENT PROBLEM — HARMONY STUDY — ACCORDING TO RULE — ON INTERPRETATION — MUSICAL CONDITIONS IN AMERICA — A GROUP OF QUESTIONS
30. 30.AGNES MORGAN — SIMPLICITY IN PIANO TEACHING — INSPIRATION FROM AN AMERICAN TEACHER — SIMPLICITY — FINGER ACTION — QUESTIONS OF PEDALING
31. 31.EUGENE HEFFLEY — MODERN TENDENCIES IN PIANO MUSIC
32. 32.GERMAINE SCHNITZER — MODERN METHODS IN PIANO STUDY — TONE WHICH VIBRATES THROUGH THE WHOLE BODY — ON MEMORIZING — ABSTRACT TECHNIC
33. 33.OSSIP GABRILOWITSCH — CHARACTERISTIC TOUCH ON THE PIANO — TECHNICAL STUDY — VELOCITY — POWER — MEMORIZING
34. 34.HANS VON BÜLOW AS TEACHER AND INTERPRETER
35. 35.HINTS ON INTERPRETATION FROM TWO AMERICAN TEACHERS — WILLIAM H. SHERWOOD AND DR. WILLIAM MASON — WILLIAM H. SHERWOOD — DR. WILLIAM MASON
36. 36.VITAL POINTS IN PIANO PLAYING — COMPOSITE PRINCIPLES DEDUCED FROM TALKS WITH EMINENT PIANISTS AND TEACHERS — SECTION I — ESSENTIALS OF PIANISM — THE DESIRE FOR REAL KNOWLEDGE — SEARCHING FOR TRUTH
37. 37.SECTION II — Hand Position, Finger Action, and Artistic Touch — WHAT TECHNIC INCLUDES — HAND POSITION — FINGER ACTION — ARTISTIC TOUCH — MELODY AND COLORATURA HANDS
38. 38.SECTION III — The Art of Practise — THE PIANIST A MECHANIC — INVENTING EXERCISES — SLOW PRACTISE — A FEW EXCEPTIONS
39. 39.SECTION IV — How to Memorize — ONE YEAR'S MEMORIZING — PHRASE BY PHRASE — CONSTANT REPAIRS NECESSARY — SECTION V
40. 40.SECTION V — Rhythm and Tone Color in Piano Playing — THE METRONOME — TONE COLOR — TONAL VARIETY

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