| The Art of Accompanying and Coaching 1965 Edition Contributor(s): Adler, Kurt (Author) |
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ISBN: 1461583675 ISBN-13: 9781461583677 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $104.49 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Instruction & Study - Voice - Music | Genres & Styles - Pop Vocal |
| Dewey: 781.63 |
| Physical Information: 0.58" H x 8.25" W x 11" (1.38 lbs) 260 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: IN WRITING a book for which there is no precedent (the tistic achievements. But, alas, there has not been such last textbooks about accompanying were written during a genius in the realm of music during the twentieth the age of thorough bass or shortly thereafter - the century. The creative musical genius of our space age eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - and dealt has yet to be discovered, if he has been born. exclusively with the problems timely then) one must Our time has perfected technique to such a degree make one's own rules and set one's own standards. This that it could not help but create perfect technician- freedom makes the task somewhat easier, if, on the one artists. Our leading creative artists master technique hand, one looks to the past: there is no generally ap- to the point of being able to shift from one style to proved model to be followed and to be compared with another without difficulty. Take Stravinsky and Picasso, one's work; but, on the other hand, the task is hard be- for instance: they have gone back and forth through as cause one's responsibility to present and future genera- many periods of style as they wished. Only with a stu- tions of accompanists and coaches is great. |