Discoveries from the Fortepiano

A Manual for Beginners and Seasoned Performers

By: Donna Louise Gunn

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Paperback | 14 January 2016

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Discoveries from the Fortepiano uncovers eighteenth-century performance practices and philosophical beliefs, enabling modern performers to craft an authentic, historically influenced style. Using a variety of primary sources and scholarly interpretations, noted keyboard pedagogue Donna Gunn offers a guide on Classical Era piano performance practice that is at once accurate to the scholarship and accessible to the performer. Gunn surveys and explains eighteenth-century music notational language, and from this develops tools that get at the heart of the otherwise enigmatic sound aesthetic of the era. Through over 100 music examples, Gunn provides specific answers to performance questions regarding period influences on the modern piano, including technique, dynamics, articulation, rhythm, ornamentation, and pedaling. A Companion Website houses recordings of three versions for each music example that demonstrate different interpretations and deliveries. Gunn encourages the reader to
study the sources, listen carefully, and experiment with the past in the present. Remarkably researched and engagingly written, Discoveries from the Fortepiano is an indispensable aid to any pianist who seeks both an academically and artistically sound approach to performing in the Classical Era style.

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"This carefully researched book offers a collection of intriguing and applicable strategies that will encourage and enable performers of all abilities to speak the language of both composer and period -- with authenticity and creativity." - Joan Reist, Past President, Music Teachers National Association "...a detailed manual for avid historical instrument buffs and modern performers...Gunn presents a practical approach on how to look at a score from the time of Mozart and create a convincing performance on any instrument. She is far more than an enthusiast in her desire to bring the ideas of early performance practices to life in a modern world. Useful as reference work or a college text." - Choice "[A] landmark book...This is a book that should be in every classical pianist's library."--American Music Teacher

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