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 Mastering
Piano Technique
A Guide for Students, Teachers, and Performers
Seymour
Fink
$24.95
Any student of
the piano can benefit from a holistic approach, in which
coordinated movements of the pianist's body provide the
foundation for reaching the heights of musical creativity and
expression.
"In Mastering
Piano Technique Professor Fink has organized in a
systematic way, a lifetime of study and experience in the field
of piano teaching and performance. There is something here for
anyone concerned with the piano. For the novice the whole range
of pianistic movement is explored and applied in logical
sequence. Even mature artists may well find solutions to
persistent physical problems that up to now may have eluded
them."
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-George
Kiorpes, Head of Piano
School of Music, University of
North Carolina, Greensboro |
"Mastering
Piano Technique is a well-organized and easy-to-use handbook
for the piano student and teacher alike. It is a comprehensive
and concise study covering systematically every major aspect of
piano technique by means of lucid conceptual analysis, excellent
practical examples, a useful vocabulary, and fine illustrations."
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-Menahem
Pressler
Pianist of the Beaux Arts Trio
School of Music, Indiana University |
Lack of strength, flexibility, and grace slow a
student's progress and may permanently frustrate interpretive
goals. But with the
careful and thorough development of physical skills, the
pianists will have at his or her command the efficiency, power,
and agility necessary to communicate the deepest meaning of the
music. Just as grammar is an unconscious foundation of verbal
expression, so musical technique is the necessary underpinning
of creative expression.
Seymour Fink
has drawn on many years of concert performance and teaching to
distill this comprehensive program for the piano student. If the
student follows the program systematically, a firm, supple
technique results, and he or she will avoid bad habits and
potential injury. Musical examples from the traditional
repertoire complement the practice exercises, clearly
demonstrating the value of the study. Numerous illustrations
accompany the text, making the book easy to use, even at the
keyboard.
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Seymour
Fink, retired senior piano professor in the Department of Music,
University of New York at Binghamton, has made a lifetime study
of piano technique and its pedagogy.