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Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the vague and complex concept of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Its intended audience is performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students, and the over 200 repertoire excerpts in the book cover the intermediate to advanced piano literature. Rather than dealing with issues pertaining to performance practice, specific composers, or genres, this book focuses solely on musical interpretation. Each chapter tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos or how to understand transitional sections of pieces. The author supplies a helpful checklist of questions at the end of each chapter. The book aims to help pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and to give teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is supplemented by a companion website that hosts over 100 audio recordings to enhance the reader's experience.
Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation demystifies the vague and complex concept of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Its intended audience is performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students, and the over 200 repertoire excerpts in the book cover the intermediate to advanced piano literature. Rather than dealing with issues pertaining to performance practice, specific composers, or genres, this book focuses solely on musical interpretation. Each chapter tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos or how to understand transitional sections of pieces. The author supplies a helpful checklist of questions at the end of each chapter. The book aims to help pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and to give teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is supplemented by a companion website that hosts over 100 audio recordings to enhance the reader's experience.
About the Companion Website
Musical Examples and Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. The Score
2. Getting Started
3. The End
4. Boxes and Beams
5. Voicing from the Bottom Up
6. Messy Basses
7. Ornamentation: Understanding the Small Print
8. Rubato: Stealing as an Art
9. Deconstructing Phrases
10. Transitions: Getting from Here to There
11. "Staccato Means Short" and Other Myths
12. Pedaling
Afterword
Glossary
Common Stylized Dances or Dance-Related Forms
Further Reading
Index
Deborah Rambo Sinn taught for two decades at colleges and universities and has performed classical concerts on four continents. She lived in Germany for five years where she also played keyboards for professional musical productions and coached opera singers and instrumentalists in music interpretation. Sinn currently resides in Washington State, where she is active as a private teacher, coach, and performer.
"I find the book by Deborah Rambo Sinn a most valuable addition to
the library of a performer, teacher, and music lover. It is in my
opinion a must for any music shelf." --Menahem Pressler,
Distinguished Professor of Music, Indiana University, pianist of
Beaux-Arts Trio, and soloist
"Deborah has written an amazingly thorough compendium of the
pianist's interpretive dilemmas. With precision, insight, and a
strong dash of unique humor, she has addressed complex issues in a
highly understandable way - providing an excellent resource for
performers, teachers, and students!" --Timothy Shafer, Professor of
Piano, Penn State University
"A useful and intelligently written book and seems to represent
years of accumulated teaching wisdom. Sinn is tireless in the
pursuit of solving passages unto the last sixteenth note, and often
refreshingly precise in her explanations...Will allow teachers and
students to think analytically about common interpretive situations
at the piano." --College Music Symposium
"A perfect resource book (aka tool) for the studio teacher or for
teen and adult students. It is written clearly, without either
pretension or condescension and with detail but not great
length...You can find a specific piece of advice or answer to a
question, or, you can immerse yourself and read the entire book
from cover to cover. Since it is intended as a textbook, it is
perfect for studio group lessons as well...This book is a keeper!"
--PianoAddict.com
"An ideal compendium of concrete solutions to common pianistic and
musical problems...Informative and well-structured...Ideal for
advanced high school and college students." --Clavier Companion
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