Author:
Shockley, Alan Frederick, 1970- author.
ImprintLanham : Rowman & Littlefield, [2018]
Imprint2018
Descriptionxviii, 249 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm
Note:Basics of the piano and its notation -- The history and mechanism of the instrument -- On the keys and on the pedals -- Inside the piano: plucking, strumming, scraping, rubbing -- Muting -- Harmonics -- The piano is a big box, and the pianist is a noise-making animal -- Bowing -- Preparations -- The toy piano -- Appendix A: Repertoire -- Appendix B: Materials for piano preparation -- Appendix C: Grand piano interior architecture and stringing.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-236) and index.
Note:"With Contemporary Piano: A Performer and Composer's Guide to Techniques and Resources, Alan Shockley provides a 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. Shockley explains dozens of ways to prepare a piano without damaging the instrument, how to notate every standard technique and many, many obscure ones, and the specific geographies of every common concert hall piano. This will be the standard reference for pianists touring and playing inside-the-piano repertoire, and for composers at all levels of familiarity with the piano hoping to understand the mechanical miracle that is the modern piano." --Publisher's description.
