The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz's The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages. Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions, he strives to help the advanced pianist think through the composer's musical intent and the actual performance tempo and dynamics when selecting the fingering. Banowetz also includes valuable contributions by Philip Fowke, who examines redistributions by Benno Moiseiwitsch in Rachmaninoff's compositions, and Nancy Lee Harper, who explores the often very different approaches to fingering found in keyboard music of the Baroque era. The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering will be useful to the advanced pianist and to instructors looking to guide students in improving this important art.
By:
Joseph Banowetz
Contributions by:
Philip Fowke,
Nancy Lee Harper
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9780253053138
ISBN 10: 0253053137
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 09 February 2021
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Acknowledgments Part I: Fingering Techniques 1. Fingering Keyboard Works of Selected Composers and Styles Appendix: The Fingering of Benno Moiseiwitsch in Manuscript Illustrations Bibliography Part II: Baroque Fingering and Interpretation: What Can a Modern Pianist Learn? Introduction: The Pianist's Dilemma 2. An Overview of General Baroque Fingering Concepts 3. Articulation (attack, decay, lifting, slurring, Affekt) 4. Hand splitting or Re-distributions, Stemming, and Cross hands 5. Crossing and Turning of the Fingers 6. Repeated Notes, Glissandi, Musical Figures, and the Overdot 7. Fingering in Ornamentation 8. Fingering in Chords and in Chordal Realizations 9. Bach's Poetic Meter 10. Singing with the Fingers 11. Dancing with the Fingers: A Guide to Understanding Scarlatti's Iberian Sonatas when Choosing a Fingering Conclusion Bibliography Index
Joseph Banowetz is Professor of Piano at the University of North Texas. An internationally renowned pianist and piano pedagogue, he is author of The Pianist's Guide to Pedaling.
Reviews for The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering
The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering is a very practical and highly useful (and musical!) approach to the subject. . . . [It] is an excellent resource and guide for informing pianists about factors that influence and impact their fingering choices and options.--Murray McLachlan, Chair, European Piano Teachers' Association
