Playing Beyond the Notes A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation

Name: Playing Beyond the Notes A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation
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ISBN: 9780199859504

ISBN-10: 0199859507

ISBN-13: 9780199859504

Edition: 2013

Authors: Deborah Rambo Sinn

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Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the vague and complex concept of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Its intended audience is performing pianists,independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students, and the over 200 repertoire excerpts in the book cover the intermediate to advanced piano literature. Rather than dealing with issues pertaining to performance practice, specific composers, or genres, this book focuses solely on musical interpretation. Each chapter tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play…

Book details

List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 4/12/2013
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 160
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.01" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.638
Language: English



Musical Examples and Illustrations


Acknowledgements


About the Companion Website


Introduction



The Score



Getting Started



The End



Boxes and Beams



Voicing from the Bottom Up



Messy Basses



Ornamentation



Rubato: Stealing as an Art



Deconstructing Phrases



Transitions: Getting from Here to There



"Staccato Means Short" and Other Myths



Pedaling


Afterword


Glossary with Annotations


Common Stylized Dances or Dance-Related Forms


Further Reading


Index