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Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents
How should one interpret music of another century? What standards should be applied to an 18th century harpsichord work, for instance, being performed on a piano? Keyboard "methods"—systematic approaches to training, touch, and interpretation—did not evolve until the 19th century, and written methodologies are few.

Drawing on primary sources, the author has compiled a detailed analysis of such keyboard "methods" as existed in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Most were developed by Couperin, C.P.E. Bach, Turk, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Liszt. Also discussed, with translations from their writings and their critics', are the detailed theoretical works by Kullak and Lussy.

Analysis shows which techniques had been adapted from earlier practice and which were original to the composer, demonstrating the evolution of the various methods. Techniques useful in the interpretation of period material, and which still have important applications today, are pointed out.

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Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents
How should one interpret music of another century? What standards should be applied to an 18th century harpsichord work, for instance, being performed on a piano? Keyboard "methods"—systematic approaches to training, touch, and interpretation—did not evolve until the 19th century, and written methodologies are few.

Drawing on primary sources, the author has compiled a detailed analysis of such keyboard "methods" as existed in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Most were developed by Couperin, C.P.E. Bach, Turk, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Liszt. Also discussed, with translations from their writings and their critics', are the detailed theoretical works by Kullak and Lussy.

Analysis shows which techniques had been adapted from earlier practice and which were original to the composer, demonstrating the evolution of the various methods. Techniques useful in the interpretation of period material, and which still have important applications today, are pointed out.

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Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents

Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents

by Elena Letnanová
Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents

Piano Interpretation of the Seventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries: A Study of Theory and Practice Using Original Documents

by Elena Letnanová

Overview

How should one interpret music of another century? What standards should be applied to an 18th century harpsichord work, for instance, being performed on a piano? Keyboard "methods"—systematic approaches to training, touch, and interpretation—did not evolve until the 19th century, and written methodologies are few.

Drawing on primary sources, the author has compiled a detailed analysis of such keyboard "methods" as existed in Europe in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries. Most were developed by Couperin, C.P.E. Bach, Turk, J.S. Bach, Mozart, Chopin and Liszt. Also discussed, with translations from their writings and their critics', are the detailed theoretical works by Kullak and Lussy.

Analysis shows which techniques had been adapted from earlier practice and which were original to the composer, demonstrating the evolution of the various methods. Techniques useful in the interpretation of period material, and which still have important applications today, are pointed out.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780786467082
Publisher: McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Publication date: 01/24/2012
Pages: 196
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.39(d)
Age Range: 18 Years

About the Author

Elena Letnanová has written three books and more than 100 articles. A pianist and professor at Slovak University of Technology, she lives in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Introduction     

1. Predecessors of the Piano     
2. French Methods of the Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries     
Francois Couperin: L’Art de toucher le clavecin     
3. German Treatises of the Eighteenth Century     
Carl Phillip Emmanuel Bach: Versuch uber die wahre Art das Klauier zu spielen     
Daniel Gottlob Turk: Klavierschule oder Anweisung zum Klavierspielen fur Lehrer und Lehrnende     
4. Johann Sebastian Bach and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart     
5. Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt     
6. German and French Treatises of the Nineteenth Century     
Adolph Kullak: Die Aesthetik des Klavierspiels     
Mathis Lussy: Traite de l'expression musicale     
Appendix: The Development of the Elements     

Notes     
Bibliography     
Index     
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