The pianist's problems

Pianists returning to the same magazine articles will notice the same nagging questions over and over. How can a passage be memorized more easily and reliably? How can the weaker fourth and fifth fingers be built up? What actually creates musicianship? Students, teachers, and performers all care about these problems, yet clear answers are surprisingly scarce. Piano study has absorbed enormous effort, and the psychology of training and many specialized studies have advanced considerably. Even so, the field should have produced more than a few firm solutions, and in most cases it has produced a preferred answer that serves the great majority of players.

This book gathers those answers in one volume and explains them in plain, non-technical language. Its aim is to offer a concise, current, and unified philosophy of piano playing, so that the reader does not have to piece together scattered sources.