Discoveries from the Fortepiano

A Manual for Beginners and Seasoned Performers

Donna Louise Gunn, Donna Gunn

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Oxford University Press Inc
14 January 2016

Classical music (c 1750 to c 1830); Keyboard instruments; Techniques of music & music tutorials

Discoveries from the Fortepiano uncovers eighteenth-century performance practices and philosophical beliefs, enabling modern performers to craft an authentic, historically influenced style. Using a variety of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, noted keyboard pedagogue Donna Gunn offers a guide on Classical Era piano performance practice that is at once accurate to the scholarship and accessible to the performer. Gunn surveys and explains eighteenth-century music notational language, and from this develops tools that get at the heart of the otherwise enigmatic sound aesthetic of the era. Through over 100 music examples, Gunn provides specific answers to performance questions regarding period influences on the modern piano, including technique, dynamics, articulation, rhythm, ornamentation, and pedaling. A Companion Website houses recordings of three versions for each music example that demonstrate different interpretations and deliveries. Gunn encourages the reader to study the sources, listen carefully, and experiment with the past in the present. Remarkably researched and engagingly written, Discoveries from the Fortepiano is an indispensable aid to any pianist who seeks both an academically and artistically sound approach to performing in the Classical Era style.

By: Donna Louise Gunn, Donna Gunn
Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 160mm, Width: 236mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 492g
ISBN: 9780199396634
ISBN 10: 0199396639
Pages: 272
Publication Date: 14 January 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

About the Companion Website Foreword Preface Acknowledgments 1. Urgency: Why Bother? 2. Affekt and Good Taste 3. Formal Structure and Harmonic Function 4. Technique-Execution 5. Rhythm 6. Dynamics 7. Accents and Other Expression Marks 8. Articulation and Touch 9. Staccato Dots and the Other Usual Suspects Ornaments 10. Ornaments 11. Repeats 12. Damper Pedal 13. Indicated Tempo 14. Final Words

Donna Gunn, artist-educator and founder of Focus On Piano LLC, is dedicated to actively engaging music lovers of all ages. Her fortepiano and period-performance practices research is global in scope, taking her to Italy, the Netherlands, and Hungary.

Reviews for Discoveries from the Fortepiano: A Manual for Beginners and Seasoned Performers

This carefully researched book offers a collection of intriguing and applicable strategies that will encourage and enable performers of all abilities to speak the language of both composer and period -- with authenticity and creativity. - Joan Reist, Past President, Music Teachers National Association