Some Commentaries On The Teaching Of Pianoforte Technique

Author : Tobias Matthay
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ISBN 13 : 9781332197545
Total Pages : 76 pages
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Download or read book Some Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique a Supplement to "the Act of Touch" And "First Principles" (Classic Reprint) written by Tobias Matthay and published by . This book was released on 2016-06-23 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Some Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique a Supplement to "the Act of Touch" And "First Principles" When the "Act of Touch" was first published in 1903, many of the ideas being new and quite antagonistic to so many current fallacies, it was necessary to fence round every statement made with ample explanation and proof. Moreover, it was necessary first to bring home certain fundamental facts and principles. To prevent these main issues being obscured, many points had to be glossed over, some of which, although subsidiary to these fundamental principles, are really quite far-reaching in their bearing on Technique. Since then, however, these ideas have become very widely accepted all over the English-speaking world. The teachings of "The Act of Touch' have also since then been rendered available for the School-room by the issue of "First Principles," of which the first twenty-six pages cover the whole technical ground - plain statements of fact being all that a student requires in the first stages. The last chapter of this primer also gives some hints as to the nature of the interpretational laws which need attention, and these have been further enlarged upon in my Lectures on Interpretation. The subsequent issue of "Relaxation Studies," with its practice-material, completed this scheme of rational Technical Teaching. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.