The Practice of Practising
- Author: Cervino, Alessandro
- Author: Laws, Catherine
- Author: Lettberg, Maria
- Author: Lisboa, Tania
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Contents
- Contents
- Preface by Catherine Laws and Tânia Lisboa
- I. A self-study of learning the Prelude from Bach's Suite No. 6 for cello solo: Comparing words and actions
- - Tânia Lisboa, Roger Chaffin, Topher Logan
- Prologue
- Effective practice
- The investigation
- Stages and cycles in learning the prelude
- Relating practice and reports
- Comparing practice and comments
- Stage 1: exploration
- Stages 2 and 3: smoothing out and listening
- Stage 4: re-working technique
- Stage 5: preparation for performance
- Connecting theory and practice
- Coda
- References
- Acknowledgements
- II. Performer's harmony: towards a performance of Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata
- - Alessandro Cervino
- Preliminary remarks
- Getting started
- The process
- The practice of practising: a tool for knowing
- Afterword
- References
- III. Morton Feldman's Late Piano Music: Experimentalism in Practice
- - Catherine Laws
- Memory and subjectivity in Feldman's late music
- The problem of interpretation
- Palais de Mari and the contingencies of performance
- Practice as an experimental process
- References
- IV. Alfred Schnittke's Piano Trio: Learning and Performing
- - Maria Lettberg
- Introduction
- Preparation for rehearsals and recording
- Achieving affinity
- Conclusions
- References
- Personalia