Speaking the piano : reflections on learning and teaching /: reflections on learning and teaching. ([2018])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Susan Tomes.
• Authors: Tomes, Susan
• Contents: Frontcover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Section One: Teaching; Enlisting the imagination; Pretending to be other people; Why don't people play better?; Grappling with the instrument; Words and signs; Tempo is character; Connecting the beats; Sensing the style; Imagery, positive and negative; Different physiques; The inescapability of one's own nature; What we talk about in lessons; The benefit of hindsight; Fusion cooking; 'You'll find the black notes play louder than the white ones'; 'For me this is like jazz'; Is playing the notes enough to reveal the music? To sway or not to swayHow important is it to hear the sound?; Section Two: Learning; Beethoven among the Alpine flowers; Not all those who wander are lost; The sound of two hands clapping; Music lights up the brain; Epilogue; Index
• Publisher Details: Woodbridge, Suffolk : Boydell Press
• Publication Date: 2018
• Copyright Date: 2018
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 786.2193; Piano -- Instruction and study; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard; MUSIC / Printed Music / Percussion; Piano -- Instruction and study; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787442825; 1787442829; 9781787443785; 1787443787
• Related ISBNs: 9781783273256; 1783273259
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