Description
From the preface by Lorin Hollander: "...a remarkable piece of work by an equally remarkable teacher, philosopher, and healer. Ruth explores with wonderful clarity and thoroughness virtually every important aspect of the mind, heart, body, and soul of the creative person. This is truly a book for our age, and would make valuable reading for those pursuing most fields of human endeavor." This small book on a large subject, the culmination of many years of performing and teaching, offers piano students, teachers, and performers useful advice for many stages along the path to becoming a pianist. Friedberg explains the mystery of the connection between the body and the brain of the pianist. What exactly is the role of the body in establishing, helping, or hindering the pianist's process? How can the mind's unending activity be harnessed most effectively to facilitate this process? She explores relevant published information and new psychological insights into learning and how it operates, supplying extensive annotated bibliographies of books and periodicals published during the past fifty years. In the final section of the book she investigates the ultimate synthesis of musical activities of the body and mind, known as "performance." Paperback edition available 2002.
About the Author
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).
Reviews
...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 addresses-diet, rest, exercise; breathing; preventing injuries; practice-scheduling, practice-methodology; memorizing; preparation for performance and performing-are relevant and pertinent for every performing musician...each of the book's three sections-mind, body, synthesis-contains 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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780810843066
Author Ruth C. Friedberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 153
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 135mm * 12mm
About the Author
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).
Reviews
...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 addresses-diet, rest, exercise; breathing; preventing injuries; practice-scheduling, practice-methodology; memorizing; preparation for performance and performing-are relevant and pertinent for every performing musician...each of the book's three sections-mind, body, synthesis-contains 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 *
Book Information
ISBN 9780810843066
Author Ruth C. Friedberg
Format Paperback
Page Count 153
Imprint Scarecrow Press
Publisher Scarecrow Press
Weight(grams) 213g
Dimensions(mm) 218mm * 135mm * 12mm
