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RESOURCES

Overview

Technical Health
  • Checklist for the
    Healthy Pianist

  • Cues for
    Injury-Prevention

  • Potential Harmful
    Body Use
   
  • MTNA National
    Conference 2008
    Handout
   

Books
  • Keyboard Technique
  • Whole-Body Awareness
     and Biomechanics

  • The Piano

DVD and Video

Links
DVDS AND VIDEOS

The Art of Piano - Great Pianists of the 20th Century 
(NVCArts: www.nvcarts.com)
Extraordinary film and TV footage  of extended live performances, from Ignace Jan Paderewski in 1936 to Claudio Arrau in 1970. Includes Horowitz, Rubinstein, Cortot, Gilels, Richter, Michelangeli, Dame Myra Hess, with commentary by 18 present-day pianists and conductors. A wonderful visual and aural documentation of legendary pianists. A great musical and technical teaching resource.

Freeing the Caged Bird  - Developing Well-Coordinated, Injury-Preventive Piano Technique with Barbara Lister-Sink (WINGSOUND, P.O. Box 10912, Winston-Salem, NC 27108, l996, 2005) A clear, direct look at piano technique from the ground up.  Explores piano and body mechanisms, demonstrates potential harmful technical habits, outlines a step-by-step training program with numerous playing examples. Reviewed in Piano & Keyboard magazine as “brilliantly conceived and produced.” Vladimir Ashkenazy calls it “a monumental work!”

The Anatomy of a Piano  - How your Grand Piano Works with piano technician John Serkin (SH Productions, Kansas City, 1991) A unique, excellent look at the mechanism of the piano from the viewpoint of a piano technician whose father, Rudolf Serkin, was one of the great pianists of the 20th century. Beautifully produced. Good for all students, teachers and parents.



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