The Contemporary Piano
A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources
Abstract
With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer’s Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a comprehensive resource for composers writing music that uses extended techniques for the piano, and for pianists interested in playing repertoire that makes use of techniques and/or implements unfamiliar to them. Shockley explains dozens of ways to prepare a piano without damaging the instrument, how to notate every standard technique and many, many obscure ones, and the specific geographies of every common concert hall piano. This will be the standard reference for pianists touring and playing inside-the-piano repertoire, and for composers at all levels of familiarity with the piano hoping to understand the mechanical miracle that is the modern piano.
Schlagworte
alternative techniques organ performance pianist piano composition piano instruction play the piano modern piano music composition keyboard composition learn the piano how to how to improvise improvisation instrument anatomy- i–xviii Preface i–xviii
- 1–4 Introduction 1–4
- 83–92 Chapter 5. Muting 83–92
- 93–108 Chapter 6. Harmonics 93–108
- 123–128 Chapter 8. Bowing 123–128
- 129–166 Chapter 9. Preparations 129–166
- 183–196 Appendix A. Repertoire 183–196
- 221–230 Notes 221–230
- 231–236 Bibliography 231–236
- 237–240 Sources and Permissions 237–240
- 241–248 Index 241–248
- 249–250 About the Author 249–250