The Complete Pianist: Body, Mind, Synthesis

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A culmination of Friedberg's years of performing and teaching, offering piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist. An insightful explanation into the mystery of the connection between the body and the brain of the pianist and an exploration into relevant published information and psychological insights into learning, supplying extensive annotated bibliographies of books and periodicals published during the pasty fifty years. Also investigates the ultimate synthesis of musical activities of the body and mind, known as performance. Paperback edition available 2002.

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...includes an extensive annotated bibliography that shows the amount of research [Friedberg] has devoted to understanding the particular requirements of artistic accomplishment and performance. * Reference and Research Book News *
...although this skillfully concise but comprehensive book is written for the pianist, the issues that she addressesdiet, rest, exercise; breathing; preventing injuries; practice-scheduling, practice-methodology; memorizing; preparation for performance and performingare relevant and pertinent for every performing musician...each of the book's three sectionsmind, body, synthesiscontains an extensive, annotated bibliography. This learned and provocative book is recommended reading for every professional and amateur musician. * Pan Pipes (Journal of Sigma Alpha Iota) *
That Friedberg has the background to speak with authority is immediately apparent...packed with distilled wisdom... * American Music Teacher *
...another kind of book:one that anyone serious about the instrument would do well to read. * San Antonio, Tx Times *

Author Bio

Ruth C. Friedberg, Director of Music and Professor of Piano, Incarnate Word College, San Antonio, TX, has also taught at Duke, the University of Texas, and the New School of Music in Philadelphia. She has concertized and given lecture-recitals throughout the US and Canada and was the keyboard artist of the San Antonio Symphony from 1976 to 1987. Her articles on 20th-century music and composers have appeared in many periodicals as well as in the New Grove's Dictionaries of Music, and Scarecrow Press has published her three-volume set, American Art Song and American Poetry (1981-1987).