The piano improvisation handbook - hardcover - piano - avec cd - Couverture souple

Divers, Auteurs

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0879309776 ISBN 13 : 9780879309770

Editeur : Backbeat Books, 2000

Synopsis

The Piano Improvisation Handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the practical skills and theoretical issues involved in mastering all forms of piano improvisation, including classical, jazz, rock and blues. Whereas most books offer little more than models for imitation and exercises for practicing, this one adopts an approach specifically designed to encourage and enable independent creative exploration. The book contains a series of graded tutorial sections with musical examples on CD, as well as an appendix listing useful scales, chords, voicings, and progressions across all keys, a bibliography, and a discography. In addition to sections outlining how melody, harmony, rhythm, texture, and form work in improvised piano music, giving distinctive emphasis to the interconnectedness of classical and jazz improvisation, there are sections devoted to explaining how ideas can be developed into continuous music and to exploring the process of finding a personal style.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Carl Humphries (Bielsko-Biala, Poland) is the author of the best-selling Piano Handbook. He studied piano and composition in London, Berlin, and Turin, and pursued theoretical studies at the University of Cambridge. He works as a pianist, teacher, and composer, specializing in the relationship between theory and performance.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Backbeat Books
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0879309776
• ISBN 13: 9780879309770
• Reliure: Couverture à spirales
• Nombre de pages: 488
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: Schott Music GmbH & Co. KG; info@schott-music.com; ; Weihergarten 5; Mainz; 55116; Allemagne