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Penelope Roskell - The Complete Pianist (From Healthy Technique To Natural Artistry)
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Penelope Roskell - The Complete Pianist (From Healthy Technique To Natural Artistry)

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    Penelope Roskell - The Complete Pianist (From Healthy Technique To Natural Artistry)

    Winner of the Presto Music Best New Publication Award 2020, The Complete Pianist covers all aspects of piano technique including posture, finger touch and tone production, chords, octaves, rotation, lateral movements. Also included are sections on mental preparation, effective practice, sight reading, memorizing; phrasing, rhythm, articulation, sound, pedalling, injury prevention and performance anxiety.
    Containing more than 500 pages of text, 300 videos, performed by Penelope herself, and 250 newly-devised exercises, this is the most comprehensive book every written on piano playing. The book is suitable for pianists of all levels, from beginner-intermediate to professional performers and teachers.


    CONTENTS

    Introduction

    Why I wrote this book

    How to use this book

    The complete teacher

    Section I: Fundamentals of piano playing

    The piano-pianist relationship

    Developing sensitivity to piano sound

    Practising: healthy. effective and inspired

    Good practice: checklist

    HEALTHY TECHNIQUE

    Section 2: A whole-body apprcach

    Introduction to piano technique

    Making physical charges at the piano

    The Roskell warm-ups

    Sitting posture

    The shoulderat the keyboard

    The pianist's elbow

    The pianist's wrist

    The thumb at the keyboard

    Bringing the hands to the keyboard

    The natural alignment of the arm

    Playing from the back

    Bongating and releasing

    Section 3: Finger touch and tone production

    The pianist's hand and finger

    The Parachute touch

    The Parachute touch in slurs and scales

    The Parachute touch in diminuendo and crescendo

    The Nimble finger touch

    The Singing finger touch

    Note-endings and jeu perle

    The 'four-part finger'

    Conclusion to finger touch and tone production

    Section 4: Scales and arpeggios

    Ergonomic fingering

    Scale technique

    Releasing the non-playing fingers

    Playing evenly

    Practising scales and arpeggios

    Broken chords

    Arpeggios

    Section 5: Playing cantabile

    Playing legato

    The illusion of legato

    The cantabile sound

    Playing pianissimo

    Double notes

    One hand: two voices

    Section 6: Detached playing

    Staccato touch

    Repeated notes

    Section 7: Playing at speed

    Virtuosity and playfulness

    Playing fast and forte

    Trills and turns

    Section 8: Fundamentals of chord playing

    Preparing and practising chords

    Playing well co-ordinated chords

    Widely-spaced chords

    Section 9: Cantabile chords

    Full arm-release chords

    Cantabile chords: the Parachute touch in chord playing

    Arpeggiated chords

    Legato chords

    Voicing chords

    Pianissimo chords

    Section 10: Detached chords

    Staccato chords

    Upward chords and the breathing wrist

    Throwing the hand for accents and jazz and popular styles.

    Repeated chords

    Section 11: Advanced chords

    Playing octaves

    Powerful chords and octaves for advanced pianists

    Section 12: Rotation

    Rotation technique

    Rotary movements in tremolo, split octaves and chords

    Alberti bass

    Rotation for scales. trills and accents

    Section 13: Lateral movements

    Moving freely around the keyboard

    Leaps and lateral movements

    Crossing hands

    Glissandi

    Section 14: The all-round pianist

    Forward and back movements

    Slides and letting go of notes

    Rounded movements

    NATURAL ARTISTRY

    Section 15: Melody, harmony and structure

    The expressive gesture

    Expressive fingering

    Harmony and structure

    Phrasing and phrase lengths

    Rests and eloquent silence

    Melodic shaping

    Melodic decoration

    Contrapuntal playing

    Section 16: Tone and texture

    Piano texture and colour

    Articulation

    Dynamic markings and accented notes

    Playing Baroque musk on the piano

    Section 17: Rhythm

    Rhythm and pulse

    Establishing and maintaining a tempo

    Playing rubato

    Rhythmic movement

    Syncopation

    More complex rhythms and polyrhythms

    Section 18: Pedalling

    The sustaining pedal

    The middle pedal

    Artistic pedalling

    Section 19: Playing with other musicians

    Playing in ensembles

    Preparing concertos

    Section 20: Learning, memorizing and sight-reading

    Preparing a piece

    Preparing a piece: checklist

    Mental preparation in practice

    Memorizing

    Memorization in practice

    Sight-reading, sight-playing and quick study

    HEALTHY AND INSPIRED PERFORMANCE

    Section 21: The healthy pianist

    Preventing injury

    Pianists with small hands

    Releasing forearm tension

    Developing strength naturally

    Strengthening the hand

    Strengthening the fingers and thumb

    Hypermobility

    Recovering from playing-related injury

    Section 22: The inspired pianist

    Accuracy and the myth of perfection

    Motivation: confidence, keeping the flame alive

    The power of listening

    Understanding anxiety

    Performing with confidence and freedom

    Breathing

    Performance: the shared experience

    Appendices:

    • The shoulder
    • The elbow
    • The wrist
    • The thumb
    • The hand. finger and forearm

    Glossary