The Piano - 8 Grand eBooks On CD

8 Grand Books 

From Yester-Year On The

PIANO

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1. The Elements of Piano Technique  written in 1907 by Ernest Hutchenson, 37 pages. "Many of the exercises contained in this little work are purely preparatory in nature. Others are for occasional or special ute Only about twenty are permanently essential. All are necessary at some stages of study or to some pupils, but the teacher should not hesitate to omit as many as can be spared in each individual case."

2. How To Play The Piano: With Practical Illustrations and Diagrams and An Abridged Compendium of Five-Finger Exrecises, Scales Thirds, Apreggi, Octaves as Practised by Him, by Mark Hambourg written in 1922, 121 pages.  "To begin with, competition is very great, and in the musical world there are many more artists, and many more concerts than formerly ; also though the best talent is still most rare and precious, yet the general level of achievement is no doubt a good deal higher
than it used to be. The young student therefore must seriously consider the outlook in front of him before he decides to take up the arduous career of a pianist, and I need scarcely mention that his first business should be to try and ascertain whether he has a decided disposition for the instrument. Unless he possesses this, it is in the highest degree a waste of time for him to commence the study of it at all."

3. Piano Method: A Complete Course of Instruction,  by Dr Karl Mertz, 296 pages. "It is important that the first lessons of a pupil should be directed by a skillful, masterly teacher. Select, therefore, the best, for it is the cheapest in the end. Place the child in his care and trust in his ability and fidelity, for a conscientious teacher takes as much interest and pride in your child's progress, as you. Avoid the error into which so many parents fall, namely, that of hastening the teacher. It is safest to go slowly in the work of musical education."

4. Piano Playing With Piano Questions Answered is 320 pages in length and was written by Josef Hofmann  in 1920. "This little book purposes to present a general view of artistic piano-playing and to offer to young students the results of such observations as I have made in the years of my own studies, as well as of the experiences which my public activity has brought me."

5. Beethoven Piano Works is 149 pages in length  written by Adolf Bernhard Marx in 1895. " There has been a very apparent deficiency and superficiality in the study of Beethoven's pianoforte compositions, possibly because of their technical difficulties, but more because of a lack of appreciation of their real thought and content; perhaps, too, a fear of the technical may have prevented a clear insight into their soul life. Again, they have been mutilated by an attempt on the part of virtuosos to transform them into bravura pieces, which most certainly they are not, and their meaning, of necessity, became obliterated. We have numerous players and teachers who have devoted themselves to other composers, but very few have given their main thought to Beethoven; and yet it cannot be disputed that his compositions comprise the greatest variety, from deepest pathos to most sparkling humor, never failing, however, to manifest the one soul which pervades them all. Indeed, their study not only leads into higher realms of imagination, but it prepares for all that can be found in pianoforte literature." 

 6. Chopin and Other Musical Essays was written by by Henry T. Finck in 1894 and is 89 pages in length. "There is hardly a composer concerning whom so many erroneous notions are current as concerning Chopin, and of all the histories of music I have seen that of Langhans is the only one which devotes to Chopin an amount of space approximately proportionate to his importance. One of the most absurd of the misconceptions is that Chopin's genius was born in full armor, and that it did not pass through several stages of development, like that of other composers. Chopin did display remarkable originality at the very beginning, but the apparent maturity of his first published works is due to the fact that he destroyed his earliest efforts and disowned those works which are known as posthumous, and which may have created confusion in some minds by having received a higher "opus" number than his last works."

7. Pianos And Their Makers, by Alfred Dolge in 1911, with  300 illustrations and over 500 pages. ' In describing the origin and development of the pianoforte, notice has been taken only of such efforts and inventions as lent themselves to evolution, or have stood the test of time. Therefore no mention is made of mere freak instruments, ancient or modern, nor of the many fruitless efforts of inventors whose aim seemed to be merely to produce " something different," either for commercial reasons or to satisfy the cravings of their own imagined genius. Great pains have been taken, however, to give full credit to those who successfully developed ideas which in their original crudeness seemed impracticable. It often happens, as in the case of the " overstrung system," that an idea is born, tried, discarded, lies dormant for generations, before the genius appears who can render it adaptable for practical use. It is to be regretted that we are still without guiding laws for the construction of the pianoforte, but the thinking piano maker of the present has the great advantage of past experiments from which to learn uJuit not to do in his efforts to improve the piano." 

 8. Piano Tuning: A Simple And Accurate Method For Amateurs, by Theo Presser in 1907, 82pages. "The present book is the outgrowth of a course of instruction, used successfully with pupils from various parts of the United States and Canada, conducted partly by correspondence; partly at the school directed by the author. Although it has been necessary to revise the course somewhat for publication in the present form, no essential matter has been omitted and much has been added. In preparing this course of study the utmost effort has been made to present the various topics in the clearest, most comprehensive manner, literary excellence being a secondary consideration." 

 

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