The Composer's Landscape: The Pianist as Explorer - Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters - Couverture souple

Montparker, Carol

 
9781574674521: The Composer's Landscape: The Pianist as Explorer - Interpreting the Scores of Eight Masters
Couverture souple
ISBN 10 : 1574674528 ISBN 13 : 9781574674521
Editeur : Amadeus, 2000

Synopsis

Derived from a popular series of lecture-recitals presented by Carol Montparker over the past several years, The Composer's Landscape features eight insightful essays on the piano repertoire. Each chapter focuses on a single composer: Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Schubert, Schumann, Brahms, Chopin, and Mendelssohn. Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page: the topographical peaks and valleys, the circuitous melodic lines, the thoroughfares where all the voices convene, and so on. The discussions include thoughtful suggestions for navigating these "landscapes " which differ so greatly from one composer to the next, taking note of the essential technical and interpretive elements, as well as the challenges for the "explorer pianist."

As an actively performing pianist, lecturer, teacher, music journalist, and author of six other books on music, Montparker has the experience and understanding to guide readers through these issues while elucidating the finer points. Woven into her text are excerpts from her interviews with world-renowned pianists, from Alfred Brendel to André Watts, conducted during her many years as senior editor of Clavier magazine. The book also includes images from original autograph manuscripts and a CD of Montparker performing selections by composers featured in the book.

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À propos de l'auteur

Carol Montparker (Huntington, NY'), 'an acclaimed author and pianist, is a Steinway Artist and an active recitalist and lecturer. Among her other books are The Blue Piano and Other Stories, A Pianist's Landscape, and Polly and the Piano, all available from Amadeus Press. Montparker's career in music journalism includes 15 years as senior editor of Clavier magazine and pieces in the New York Times, Newsday, and many other publications.

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Éditeur
Amadeus
Date d'édition
2000
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1574674528
ISBN 13 
9781574674521
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
278
Coordonnées du fabricant
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