Piano method

✍ Scribed by Merz Karl.

• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 308
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Author: Karl Merz.
Publisher: The S. Brainard's Sons.
Published 1885 in New York.
308 pages.
A Complete Course of Instruction for the Pianoforte.
This book was published in 1885 but contains many useful exercises and tips to study and learn piano. Moreover it contains helpful tips and suggestions for piano teachers.
Piano method summery.
Piano scales and intervals.
Scale fingering rules.
Major scales.
Minor scales.
Octaves.
Broken chords and grand arpeggios.
Five fingers exercises.
Trills.
Playing with the left or right hand.
Playing with both hands.
Bass notes.
Musical abbreviations.
Melody.
Chromatic scales.
Dominant chords and their arpeggios.
Broken diminished chords.
Legato and staccato touch.
Metronome marking.
Tempo expressions, bars and measures.
How to practice.
Studying piano and practice tips.
Syncopations.
Piano minor scales in simple thirds and in double thirds. Other exercises in thirds.
Scales in major double sixths and in minor sixths.
How to study music and musical training by Schumann.
Tips for teaching piano and music didactics.
The use of the piano pedal and tips about the soft pedal.
Wrist action and repeating notes (tremolo).
Body positions and finger flexibility.
Melodic ornamentations.
Musical signs.
Playing from memory.
Remember that not only should a child's fingers and hands develop, but also its mind. If a pupil's mental growth is slow, parents should be patient, they should not find fault with the teacher. The teacher can no more hasten mental development, than he can hasten the growth of a plant. He may use every efficient means conducive to mental growth, but here his task ends.
Music, if properly used, exercises a beneficial influence upon the human mind and heart. It is a means of education and culture, and as such it is deserving of our esteem and most diligent cultivation. It is to your credit that you give your child an opportunity to study it. Remember, however, that those only derive the highest possible benefits who study music as an art. See to it then, that your children derive all those benefits from their musical studies which art-culture provides. He, who teaches the art of music, follows a high calling, for he helps along the great work of making this world better and more beautiful. For this, he should be honored. To become a good teacher of music requires years of study and practice. Aside from this, it is an arduous and sometimes very difficult task to impart musical instruction these reasons yon should not only pay your teacher well, but also cheerfully.
Finally, keep your instrument in order and see to it that the child is ready for the lesson at the proper time.

✦ Subjects

Искусство и искусствоведение;Музыкальное искусство;Нотная литература;Для фортепиано;Педагогический репертуар