Playing beyond the notes : a pianist's guide to musical interpretation / Deborah Rambo Sinn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sinn, Deborah Rambo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano music--Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.).

Piano music.

Piano--Performance.

Piano.

Piano--Instruction and study.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (160 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, c2013.

Summary:

This book demystifies the complex topic of musical interpretation by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. The book targets pianists, piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students and incorporates over 200 musical examples from the intermediate and advanced piano repertoire. 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 issuespertaining 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 effective ornaments and rubatos or how to understand transitional sections of pieces. Theauthor supplies a helpful checklist of questions at the end of each chapter. The book aims to help pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and to give teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is supplemented by a companion website that hosts over 100 audio recordings to enhance the reader's experience.

Contents:

The score

Getting started

The end

Boxes and beams

Voicing from the bottom up

Messy basses

Ornamentation : understanding the small print

Rubato : stealing as an art

Deconstructing phrases

Transitions : getting from here to there

"Staccato means short" and other myths

Pedaling.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

0-19-998508-1

1-299-45688-X

0-19-985949-3

OCLC:

922904474