Contemporary Piano - A Performer and Composers Guide to Techniques and Resources

Shockley provides a unique 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.

List of contents

Chapter 1: Notation and Some Piano Basics
Chapter 2: The History and Mechanism of the Piano
Chapter 3: On the Keys and on the Pedals
Chapter 4: Pizzicato, Strumming, Scraping, Rubbing
Chapter 5: Muting
Chapter 6: Harmonics
Chapter 7: The Piano is a Big Box and the Pianist is a Noise-Making Animal
Chapter 8: Bowing
Chapter 9: Preparations
Chapter 10: The Toy Piano
Appendix A: Repertoire
Appendix B: Materials for Piano Preparation
Appendix C: Grand Piano Interior Architecture and Stringing

About the author

By Alan Shockley

Summary

Shockley provides a unique 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.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Shockley, Alan Frederick Shockley, Shockley Alan
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.03.2018
• EAN: 9781442281899
• ISBN: 978-1-4422-8189-9
• No. of pages: 268
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > Organology; MUSIC / Musical Instruments / Piano & Keyboard, MUSIC / Instruction & Study / Composition, Techniques of music / music tutorials / teaching of music, Techniques Of Music / Music Tutorials, Keyboard instruments