Piano Solo - Level 2 - Digital Download
SKU: A0.683960
Composed by Gert Th. Walter. Instructional. Score. 61 pages. Gert Th. Walter #6325895. Published by Gert Th. Walter (A0.683960).
The desire to teach aspiring pianists the best technique is as old as the instrumental history itself. The best musicians could not resist giving their trainees instructive teaching material: it was not least about the profession and the preservation of traditional knowledge.
Most authors of etude works usually composed a study for a specific instrumental-technical or manual-technical problem, with the help of which the students could solve this problem. The number of difficulties to be overcome is immense, and it is therefore also the number of finger exercises. And if the elements are to be learned reduced to the purely technical, often even highly gifted people lose interest in playing the piano.
The author of this issue proposes a different way: to accommodate as many different technical formulas as possible in a single piece of music, whereby the training of these formulas should be musically experienceable or meaningfully recipientable. Starting from the classical approach of letting all scales practice in all keys, these cadences should also be played transposed. Ideally, the students have already overcome the first hurdles of playing the piano and are in the third or fourth year of their education.
The compositions of this edition are understood as stylistic copies that combine the know-how of past epochs. Therefore, these arrangements could also be used as universal cadences without thematic reference in piano or harpsichord concertos, which were created between about 1740 and 1800, in whole or in part, provided that the original cadences are missing or lost. It is recommended to decorate the cadences of the lower level – and if necessary, also those of the intermediate stage – according to the taste of the times (appending an example).
All techniques presented here can also be transferred to other keyboard instruments (such as organ, harpsichord, electric piano, keyboard). In the detailed instructions on the execution, the use of medical-physiological technical terms in favour of easier absorption was omitted.
The problem of the unequally treated piano mechanics of various brands and series remains untouched: here the finished pianists have to adapt sensitively to the conditions. In addition, there is the rare pianistic talent to impose or rather wrestle away one's own sound ideas from the piano: to those who will be primarily of sporting value. But those who strive to make the best of the instrument itself sound with the best technology will certainly enjoy this collection.
Gert Walter (2021)
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