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Piano notes : the world of the pianist / Charles Rosen.
Author
Rosen, Charles, 1927-2012
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Format
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Language
English
Published/Created
New York : Free Press, ©2002.
Description
x, 246 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
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Mendel Music Library - Stacks
ML700 .R77 2002
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Piano
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Performance
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"In Piano Notes, he writes for an audience about an old friend - the piano itself. Drawing upon a lifetime of wisdom and the accumulated lore of many great performers of the past, Rosen shows why the instrument demands such a stark combination of mental and physical prowess. Readers will gather many little-known insights - from how pianists vary their posture, to how splicings and microphone placements can ruin recordings, to how the history of composition was dominated by the piano for two centuries. Stories of many great musicians abound.
Rosen reveals Nadia Boulanger's favorite way to avoid commenting on the performances of her friends ("You know what I think, " spoken with utmost earnestness), why Glenn Gould's recordings suffer from "double-strike" touches, and how even Vladimir Horowitz became enamored of splicing multiple performances into a single recording. Rosen's explanation of the piano's physical pleasures, demands, and discontents will delight and instruct anyone who has ever sat at a keyboard, as well as everyone who loves to listen to the instrument."--Jacket.
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Includes index.
נושא ישן: Piano - Performance.
Contents
Body and mind
Listening to the sound of the piano
The instrument and its discontents
Conservatories and contests
Concerts
Recording
Styles and manners.
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ISBN
0743203828
9780743203821
0743243129
9780743243124
LCCN
2002069634
OCLC
49679727
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