Description
Book SynopsisTrade Review"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
Table of ContentsPreface
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
