The Craft of Piano Playing DVD by Alan Fraser :: Maple Grove Music Productions

A STUDY GUIDE TO THE CRAFT OF PIANO PLAYING:

A ONE-SEMESTER COMPREHENSIVE PLAN BY ALAN FRASER

a study guide to the craft of piano playing dvd

As you know, Alan Fraser completed his book, The Craft of Piano Playing in 2003 and released the DVD in 2006. We are pleased to announce that he has now completed A Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing. This small 60-page book contains section summaries, lists of key themes, and sample exam questions that test the reader/viewer's knowledge in a practical way. The Study Guide links material from the book and DVD to empower the student's learning experience and make mastery of Alan Fraser's potent new approach to piano technique at once both congenial and effective.

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TOC:

Preface 6

Table of Contents 10

Week 1: Introduction to Some Key Concepts 14

Week 2: Piano Technique and Movement 18

Week 3: Legato: The Physical Foundation of Piano Technique 22

Week 4: The Special Role of the Thumb 26

Week 5: Octaves and Chords 30

Week 6: The Role of the Arm 34

Week 7: Rotation 38

Week 8: Natural Finger Shape & Some Other Touch Strategies 40

Week 9: Musical Entasis – Rhythm 44

Week 10: Musical Entasis – Phrasing 48

Week 11: Musical Entasis – Orchestration; Thematic Review 52

Week 12: Maximal Articulation 56

Week 13: Emotional & Spiritual Content in Piano Playing 60

Answers to Questions (Selected) 64

Bibliography 66

The Study Guide to The Craft of Piano Playing sets out a 13- week study plan providing a brief summary of the material to be covered in each one-week period, plus a list of key themes, sample questions andrelated reading material. The Study Guide will be an ideal aid to pianopedagogy students using The Craft of Piano Playing as a textbook, and will also be a useful tool for independent students of the piano.

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"This fascinating DVD is a 'must have' for any pianist wanting to master their
piano technique..."

La Lettre du Musicien, France

"… the most detailed and intensive study
of the subject since Otto Ortmann's
seminal work, The Physiological
Mechanics of Pianoforte Technique
(1929)…"

Piano Magazine, UK

''Astoundingly profound knowledge of
body movement and structure..."

ISSTIP Journal, UK

"A guaranteed huge improvement to your
piano sound."

PianoNews, Germany

"Challnges many common pedagogical beleifes and ideas of movement ...full of fascinating insights and ideas..."

ISSTIP Journal, UK

"...well-devised, carefully structured and always laced with humor this very serious topic"

EPTA Journal, UK

∙Find out how other pianists are using
The Craft of Piano Playing to revolutionize
their technique and solve the unsolvable.

∙Alan Fraser himself answers questions
on problems of technique and repertoire
submitted by pianists of all types.

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BOOK REVIEW QUOTES

“While The Craft of Piano Playing may at first appear to treat physical phenomena in isolation, its whole raison d’etre is more eloquently to communicate the emotional, spiritual, philosophical and dramatic content of the music we play.”

Piano Magazine, UK

“Alan Fraser has written a formidable and insightful volume on piano technique… 417 articulate and eloquent pages… so much to absorb…a course based on the content of this book alone strikes me as a possibility for a pedagogy teacher.”

American Music Teacher, USA

“Here is a book so radical in approach, so meticulously and sometimes densely argued, so far beyond the scope of any short review, that anything like a serious discussion of it must be postponed until a feature article can at least begin to do justice to the thought and research that lie behind it…”

Piano Magazine, UK

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