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Title: On Piano Playing: Motion, Sound, and Expression by Gyorgy Sandor ISBN: 0-02-872280-9 Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing Pub. Date: 01 September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $55.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.6 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent guide to piano technique
Comment: I am an organist. Nevertheless, I found this book profoundly helpful in developing a good keyboard technique. While it won't help the organist with pedalling (you would have to consult Gleason on that one!), it will help you develop a solid and flawless keyboard technique. The organist must base his or her organ technique on a good piano technique. Even though the fingering is slightly different from the piano to the organ, much can be gained from Sandor. I would highly reccommend this book to any organist or pianist. It is a good, common sense guide to piano technique. Gone are Hanon and Czerny!
Rating: 5
Summary: Solid Common Sense
Comment: I believe Mr. Sandor's (pronounced SHAHN-dor, BTW) book to be the best book on piano technique out there. It's a bit pricey, but worth it.
Mr. Sandor was a student of Bartok and is an award-winning concert pianist. I'm a physician with an engineering background, and I can tell you that Mr. Sandor also has an exceptional understanding of the piano mechanism and of the dynamics of the human body, *and* is a very clear writer. He explains not only the proper physical technique to get the sounds you want, but also explains from a musical standpoint what sound you should be striving for and why, as well as including many useful tidbits along the way, such as the proper timing of grace notes.
Mr. Sandor explains why many of the popular (and painful!) techniques and exercises are not only unnecessary, but harmful both physically and musically. Mr. Sandor himself is the best testimony to the validity of his methods. I had the privilege of hearing him play at age 89, and of hearing his remarkable sound unfettered by a long lifetime of wear and tear on his joints and muscles.
This book would be of most benefit to a budding professional classical pianist, serious young student, or professional piano pedagogue, but is also very helpful to a not-very-good amateur such as myself.
All in all, a very solid, sensible work.
Rating: 5
Summary: Technique based on anatomy and physiology
Comment: This is one of the few books on piano technique which deals with factual, objective, anatomic, physiological and cognitive issues rather than with subjective views based on personal experience and opinion. Though not perfect (it does not tackle every aspect of piano technique) it is really helpful. For those people who liked the work of Otto Ortmann, Seymour Fink and Max Cooke.
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Title: Piano Technique by Walter Gieseking, Karl Leimer ISBN: 0486228673 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $6.95 |
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Title: Super Sight-Reading Secrets: An Innovative, Step-By-Step Program for Musical Keyboard Players of All Levels by Howard B. Richman ISBN: 0961596309 Publisher: Sound Feelings Pub Pub. Date: June, 1986 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: Mastering Piano Technique: A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Performers by Seymour Fink, Donald G. Bell ISBN: 0931340462 Publisher: Amadeus Pr Pub. Date: June, 1992 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Basic Principles in Pianoforte by Josef Lhevinne ISBN: 0486228207 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1972 List Price(USD): $4.95 |
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Title: Twenty Lessons In Keyboard Choreography by Seymour Bernstein ISBN: 0793503728 Publisher: Hal Leonard Pub. Date: 01 April, 1991 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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