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Clavichord for Beginners
Joan Benson
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Description for Clavichord for Beginners
Paperback. Suitable for both practitioners and enthusiasts, this book describes the proper method for practicing fingering and articulation and emphasizes the importance of touch and sensitivity at the keyboard. Series: Publications of the Early Music Institute. Num Pages: 144 pages, 19 b&w illus., 77 music exx. BIC Classification: AVRG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 14. Weight in Grams: 417.
Written by Joan Benson, one of the champions of clavichord performance in the 20th century, Clavichord for Beginners is an exceptional method book for both practitioners and enthusiasts. In addition to detailing the historical origins of the instrument and the evolution of keyboard technique, the book describes the proper method for practicing fingering and articulation and emphasizes the importance of touch and sensitivity at the keyboard.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Indiana University Press
Condition
New
Series
Publications of the Early Music Institute
Number of Pages
144
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253011589
SKU
V9780253011589
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About Joan Benson
Joan Benson has performed throughout the world, garnering respect of classical music enthusiasts and major contemporary composers. Her advocacy of modern Western music led her to Olivier Messiaen's class at the Paris Conservatoire, to the University of Utrecht Institute of Sonology, and to Stanford's Center for computer Research in Music and Acoustics. She has taught on the faculty at Stanford ... Read more
Reviews for Clavichord for Beginners
Beginners, and keyboard players from other disciplines, will profit immensely from Benson's detailed analysis of clavichord touch; the dynamic variation in her own playing, particularly her enviable pianissimos, is the best advertisement for it. The publication as a whole should appeal to a much wider public, however, as a visual and audio document of a notable twentieth-century pioneer of the ... Read more