Etudes for piano teachers : reflections on the teacher's art / Stewart Gordon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gordon, Stewart, 1930- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Piano--Instruction and study.

Piano.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (168 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just as musical etudes focus on the development of skills and address the technical problems encountered in keyboard literature, the ""etudes"" in Stewart Gordon's new book also focus on ideas which prepare piano teachers for meeting the problems encountered in piano performing and teaching. This major new collection on the piano teacher's art opens with an assessment of the role of the piano teacher, and goes on to explore various types of students and the challenge each presents: the moderately talented, but ambitious, student; the late beginner; the unusually gifted. Drawing on thirty years

Contents:

Contents; 1. Recognition Patterns; 2. Basic Positions; 3. Neglected Rudiments; 4. Neglected Skills; 5. Extension Exercises; 6. Repeated Notes; 7. Ricordanza (Memory); 8. Pour les Trois Pedales; 9. Balancing Act; 10. Contemporary Challenge; 11. Mazeppa (The Way We Wear); 12. Feux Follets; 13. Eroica: A Call for Activism; 14. Vision; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; V; W

Notes:

Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1995.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028247-9

0-19-772787-5

1-280-44191-7

1-4237-3549-8

0-19-802533-5

1-60256-012-9

OCLC:

559889156