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1 online resource (328 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 295-296) and index. |
| Contents |
Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Preface: A Few Words Before; Acknowledgments; Part One: A Life in Teaching; One A Brief Biography; Two The Studio; Three Pressler's Early Training; Four The Debussy Competition; Five Opportunities in America; Six Bloomington; Seven General Aspects of Pressler's Teaching; Eight The Technical Approach; Nine Principles of Expressive Performance; Ten Guides for Practicing; Eleven Technical Instructions; Twelve Pressler's Humor; Thirteen Pressler at the Met: Beethoven's Sonata Op. 110; Fourteen Pressler at the TCU/Cliburn Piano Institute; Part Two: The Music. |
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Fifteen Johann Sebastian BachSixteen Béla Bartók; Seventeen Ludwig van Beethoven; Eighteen Johannes Brahms; Nineteen Frédéric Chopin; Twenty Claude Debussy; Twenty-One Joseph Haydn; Twenty-Two Franz Liszt; Twenty-Three Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart; Twenty-Four Serge Prokofiev; Twenty-Five Maurice Ravel; Twenty-Six Franz Schubert; Twenty-Seven Robert Schumann; Twenty-Eight Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky; Twenty-Nine Carl Maria von Weber; Appendix A. Menahem Pressler's Musical Ancestry; Appendix B. Lineage of Pressler's Piano Teachers; Appendix C. Tributes to Pressler. |
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Appendix D. Pressler's Studio Rosters, 1955-2008Bibliography; Index of Compositions; Index of Names and Concepts. |
| Summary |
As soloist, master class teacher, and pianist of the world-renowned Beaux Arts Trio, Menahem Pressler can boast of four Grammy nominations, three honorary doctorates, more than 80 recordings, and lifetime achievement awards presented by France, Germany, and Israel. Former Pressler student William Brown traces the master's pianistic development through Rudiakov, Kestenberg, Vengerova, Casadesus, Petri, and Steuermann, blending techniques and traditions derived from Beethoven, Chopin, Liszt, and J.S. Bach. Brown presents Pressler's approach to performance and teaching, including techn. |
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Use copy Restrictions unspecified MiAaHDL |
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Electronic reproduction. [S.l.] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2010. MiAaHDL |
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Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve MiAaHDL |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Pressler, Menahem.
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Pressler, Menahem. |
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Pressler, Menahem. |
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Pianists -- Biography.
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Pianists -- Biography. |
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Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.)
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Piano music -- Interpretation (Phrasing, dynamics, etc.) |
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Piano teachers.
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Piano teachers. |
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Piano -- Performance.
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Piano -- Performance. |
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Electronic books.
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Biographies.
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Biographies.
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Print version: Brown, William. Menahem Pressler : Artistry in Piano Teaching. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2008 9780253352415 |
| ISBN |
9780253013521 electronic book |
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0253013526 electronic book |
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9780253352415 |
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025335241X (cloth) (alkaline paper) |
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