Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretation [Paperback]

Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretationdemystifies the complex topic of musical interpretation by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. The book targets pianists, piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students and incorporates over 200 musical examples from the intermediate and advanced piano repertoire.Playing Beyond the Notes: A Pianist's Guide to Musical Interpretationdemystifies the complex concepts of musical interpretation in Western tonal piano music by boiling it down to basic principles in an accessible writing style. Author and veteran piano instructor Deborah Rambo Sinn tackles a different interpretive principle, explaining clearly, for example, how to play effective ornaments and rubatos. As a whole, the book helps pianists understand concrete ways to apply interpretive concepts to their own playing and gives teachers practical ways to teach interpretation to their students. The book is illustrated with over 200 repertoire excerpts and supplemented by a companion website with over 100 audio recordings.Playing Beyond the Notesis essential reading for all performing pianists, independent piano teachers, and piano pedagogy students.About the Companion WebsiteMusical Examples and IllustrationsAcknowledgementsIntroduction1. The Score2. Getting Started3. The End4. Boxes and Beams5. Voicing from the Bottom Up6. Messy Basses7. Ornamentation: Understanding the Small Print8. Rubato: Stealing as an Art9. Deconstructing Phrases10. Transitions: Getting from Here to There11. Staccato Means Short and Other Myths12. PedalingAfterwordGlossaryCommon Stylized Dances or Dance-Related FormsFurther ReadingIndexDeborah Rambo Sinntaught for two decades at colleges and universities and has performed classical concerts on four continents. She lived in Germany for five years where she also played keyboards for professional musical productions and coached opera singers and instruml³/