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id: 29280
author: Glover, Ellye Howell
title: How the Piano Came to Be
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  He overthrew the temples in the ruins of which have been found the records of musical instruments dating from the very earliest times. We find also in the records of the Hindus, the Chinese, the Persians, and the Hebrews that these people had stringed musical instruments at a very early date and that the most common among them was the lyre in its various modifications.


id: 16658
author: Wieck, Friedrich
title: Piano and Song How to Teach, How to Learn, and How to Form a Judgment of Musical Performances
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  They come to a _piano_ or _pianissimo_, and, no longer content with one pedal, they take the soft pedal while the loud pedal is still resounding. Only Jenny Lind and Henrietta Sontag were allowed by the public to give out their voices naturally and lightly without straining them, and to sing _piano_ and _pianissimo_, and their celebrity is a justification of this privilege. _Answer.


id: 39211
author: Hofmann, Josef
title: Piano Playing, with Piano Questions Answered
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  What contemporary composers write good piano music? Pieces with pretentious names are usually devoid of such contents as their names imply, so that the names are merely a screen to hide the paucity of thoughts and ideas. Generally speaking, the slur in piano music represents the breathing periods of the vocalist.


id: 15604
author: Brower, Harriette
title: Piano Mastery: Talks with Master Pianists and Teachers
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  In regard to memorizing piano music, it may be said this can be accomplished in three ways: namely, with the eye, with the ear, and with the hand. For memorizing piano music I can say I have no method whatever.


id: 28026
author: Cooke, James Francis
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title:
  Great Pianists on Piano Playing Study Talks with Foremost Virtuosos. A Series of Personal Educational Conferences with Renowned Masters of the Keyboard, Presenting the Most Modern Ideas upon the Subjects of Technic, Interpretation, Style and Expression

summary:
  Despite the great number of études that have been written, imagine for one moment what a desert the technic of music would be without Czerny, Clementi, Tausig, Pischna--to say nothing of the great works of Scarlatti and Bach, which have an effect upon the technic, but are really great works of musical art. Great musical masterpieces owe their existence to mental forces quite as miraculous as those which put the heavens into being.


