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Author Thompson, Merlin B., author

Title Fundamentals of piano pedagogy : fuelling authentic student musicians from the beginning / Merlin B. Thompson
Published Cham, Switzerland : Springer International Publishing, [2018]

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Description 1 online resource (VIII, 99 pages) : online resource
Series SpringerBriefs in Education, 2211-1921
SpringerBriefs in education, 2211-1921
Contents Machine generated contents note: 1. Introduction -- 2. Themes to Initiate and Sustain the Journey -- 2.1. Our Relation with Music -- 2.2. Student Independence -- 2.3. Personal Authenticity -- 2.4. Final Thoughts -- 2.5. Before We Move on -- References -- 3. What Does Music Learning Look like? -- 3.1. Models of Learning -- 3.2. Language Learning -- 3.3. Learning to Play by Ear -- 3.4. Learning to Play the Piano -- 3.4.1. Background Stage -- 3.4.2. Foundation Stage -- 3.4.3. Reading Stage -- 3.5. Growth and Rest -- 3.6. Before We Move on -- References -- 4. What Does Teaching the Piano Look like? -- 4.1. Piano Teaching from a Historical Perspective -- 4.2. Piano Teaching and Democratic Relationships -- 4.3. Piano Teaching and the Model of Parenting -- 4.4. Final Thoughts -- 4.5. Before We Move on -- References -- 5. Piano Tone and Technique -- 5.1. Piano Tone -- 5.2. Piano Technique -- 5.2.1. Basic #1: Grab and Release -- 5.2.2. Basic #2: Walking Fingers -- 5.2.3. Basic #3: Arm Circles -- 5.2.4. Basic #4: Our Body -- 5.2.5. Basic #5: Posture -- 5.3. Final Thoughts -- 5.4. Before We Move on -- References -- 6. Teaching the Student -- 6.1. Separating Students' Development from Repertoire Requirements -- 6.2. Accumulated Repertoire, Review, and Refinement -- 6.3. Teachers as Student Advocates -- 6.4. Teachers as Student Agitators -- 6.5. Caring for Music -- 6.6. Final Thoughts -- 6.7. Before We Move on -- References -- 7. Taking Parents into Consideration -- 7.1. Historical Implications -- 7.2. Teachers and Parents in Musical Settings -- 7.3. Meaningful Conversations -- 7.3.1. Teachers' First Encounter with Parents -- 7.3.2. Real Life Families -- 7.3.3. Input from Parents Is Vital -- 7.3.4. Musical Cornerstones -- 7.3.5. Parent-Teacher Interviews -- 7.4. Final Thoughts -- 7.5. Before We Move on -- References -- 8. Coda -- 8.1. Flourishing -- 8.2. Final Thoughts
Summary How can piano teachers successfully foster student participation and growth from the outset? How can teachers prepare and sustain their influential work with beginner student musicians? This book presents answers to these questions by making important connections with current music education research, masters of the performance world, music philosophers, and the author's 30-year career as a piano pedagogy instructor in Canada, the USA, Australia, New Zealand, and Japan. It investigates the multilayered role piano teachers play right from the very beginning - the formative first four to five years during which teachers empower students to explore and expand their own emerging musical foundations. This book offers a humane, emancipatory, and generous approach to teaching by grappling with some of the most fundamental issues behind and consequences of studio music teaching. More experiential than abstract and cerebral, it demonstrates how teaching beginner piano students involves an attentiveness to musical concerns like our connection to music, learning to play by ear and by reading, caring for music, the importance of tone and technique, and helping students develop fluency through their accumulated repertoire. Teaching beginner students also draws on personal aspects like independence and authenticity, the moral and ethical dignity associated with democratic relationships, and meaningful conversations with parents. Further, another layer of teaching beginners acknowledges both sides of the coin in terms of growth and rest, teaching what is and what might be, as well as supporting and challenging student development. In this view, how teachers fuel authentic student musicians from the beginning is intimately connected to the knowledge, beliefs, and values that permeate their thoughts and actions in everyday life. Fundamentals of Piano Pedagogy stands out as a much-needed instructional resource with immense personal, practical, social, philosophical, educational, and cultural relevance for today's studio music teachers. Its humanistic and holistic approach invites teachers to consider not only who they are and what music means to them, but also what they have yet to imagine about themselves, about music, their students, and life
Subject Piano -- Instruction and study.
Music.
Teacher training.
Teaching of a specific subject.
MUSIC -- Musical Instruments -- Piano & Keyboard.
MUSIC -- Printed Music -- Percussion.
Piano -- Instruction and study
Education
Music
Teaching
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9783319655338
3319655337