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Palette of Touches
Elementary and Intermediate
Palette of Touches offers a way for developing pianists to gain an aural awareness of tonal colors available on the piano and the technical tools needed to produce them in performance. The books introduces a variety of legato, staccato, and chordal touches through the following:
- Detailed descriptions, photographs, and online video clip demonstrations
- Recommended touch symbols to apply to printed exercises and scores
- Exercises specifically written to match each touch
- Excerpts from traditional piano literature for quick application
- Selected pieces of classical repertoire that feature each touch.
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Teachers and students learn to define interpretive decisions in music being studied using a descriptive, clear-cut "touch vocabulary," assigning a level of weight into the key (key depth) to define dynamics, and through exercises and repertoire that allow students to physically fine-tune the sound and feel of these touches. The results can be remarkable. Student performances suddenly gain life and vitality!
Discuss and explore interactively an array of staccato, legato, and chordal touches that create a vocabulary of tonal color in your students' interpretations and performances. The workshop presents touch exercises and piano literature excerpts that directly apply these tonal colors to intermediate repertoire. (1-1/2 hours) Refer to the full description of the Palette Touches Workshop under
Workshops.
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