Pianist's Craft: Mastering the Works of Great Composers - Hardcover

by Richard Paul Anderson (Editor)

In The Pianist's Craft, Richard Anderson collects from his fellow pianist-scholars 18 articles on the teaching, preparation, and performance of works by the greatest composers in the standard piano repertoire. The contributors--all recognized nationally and internationally for their contributions as performing artists, teachers, recording artists, and clinicians--write thoughtfully about the composers whose work they have studied and played for years, examining questions of phrasing, tempo, articulation, dynamics, rhythm, color, gesture, lyricism, instrumentation, and genre. The Pianist's Craft is intended for teachers and students of the intermediate and advanced levels of piano, instructors and performers at the university level, and those who love piano and piano music generally.

Author Biography

Richard Paul Anderson is associate professor in the School of Music at Brigham Young University, where he has served for 39 years as a member of piano faculty. An author, teacher and composer, he also teaches theory and composition and coordinates the Group Piano programs for music majors and non-music majors. Anderson is the author of Beginning Piano Techniques (2006) and Ensemble: Keyboard Proficiency for the Music Major (2002), and he is also the co-author of Simple Steps to Playing the Piano (1999).