How Long to Read The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 11 minutes to read The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique by Neil Stannard

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Description

Learn a song a day or a sonata movement a week. Use this material to systematically explore the many different techniques required of the collaborative pianists, and in the process expand your range of expression in solo repertoire. Collaborative pianists need all the same technical skills required of soloists, and some would argue that they need to be able to play mezzo forte and under. If you doubt this, look at cello sonatas of Rachmaninoff and Chopin, violin and cello sonatas of Brahms and songs by Strauss and Wolf, all of which are contained in this volume along with all the other major composers of duo repertoire. In the past, much confusion swirled about regarding the best avenues for achieving a reliable piano technique. Exercises of diverse and sometimes destructive patterns were readily available, and for many pianists they were considered indispensable. Despite the research-also readily available-of physiologist Otto Ortmann ("The Physiological Mechanics of Piano Technique," 1962) and others, teachers continued to dish out Czerny and Hanon exercises to naive students eager to develop "strong and "independent" fingers. They were barking up the wrong tree. (For more on this topic see "Piano Technique Demystified: Insights into Problem Solving," 2nd Ed.) I advise pianists to put away Czerny and Hanon exercises and, regardless of technical approach, apply themselves to these passages from music they intend to play-collaborative works by master composers-as building blocks for technique and musicianship. Lessons learned here on the relationship of song text to expressive pianism are applicable not just to art song but to both instrumental duos and solo repertoire.

How long is The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique?

The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique by Neil Stannard is 246 pages long, and a total of 62,976 words.

This makes it 83% the length of the average book. It also has 77% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 44 minutes to read The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique aloud.

What Reading Level is The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique?

The Collaborative Pianist's Guide to Practical Technique is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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