Cello
- Author: Pleeth, William
of the music that provides the structure to guide the musician's imagination. He also shares insights into letting the cello speak for itself at the composer's bidding, in a voice appropriate...
Cello
- Author: Pleeth, William
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of the music that provides the structure to guide the musician's imagination. He also shares insights into letting the cello speak for itself at the composer's bidding, in a voice appropriate...
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A terrific volume from the Yehudi Menuhin Music Guides series which serves not only as an introduction to playing the Cello but also as a history of the instrument and Cello compositions. William Pleeth is a world renowned recitalist, soloist teacher and performer and his experience and knowledge of this subject is outstanding.
There is a wealth of brilliant and perceptive advice in this valuable book and with photographs and accounts of William Pleeth in action, this is a comprehensive and indispensable guide for player and reader alike. Includes an introduction by Yehudi Mehuhin and a foreword by world famous Cellist Jacqueline Du Pre.
The Yehudi Mehuhin Music Guides are hugely important and twice as useful! Each one concentrates on a particular instrument from the orchestral family; giving information, background, history, and technique all by recognised and skilled musicians - experts in their field.
Contents
- Introduction by Yehudi Menuhin
- Foreword by Jacqueline de Pre
- Part One: The Philosophy of Playing the Cello
- 1. Techniques in Perspective
- 2. Completeness in Practising
- 3. Right Attitudes towards the Study Book
- 4. On the Life of the Left Hand
- 5. The Marriage between the Left and Right Hands
- 6. The Craft of the Bow
- 7. The Limitation of technique through the Comfort of Habit
- 8. Bowings and Musical shape
- 9.The Architecture of Music
- 10. The Ingredients of Architecture
- 11. The Unbroken Circle of Imagination and Receiving
- 12. Ensemble Playing
- 13. Playing with Piano
- 14. Some Thoughts on the Performance of Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Music
- Part Two: The Basic Techniques of the Cello
- 1. Holding the Cello
- 2. Bow Command
- 3. The Playing Position of the Left Hand
- Part Three: Teachers and Parents
- 1. Attitudes towards Teaching
- 2. Developing Naturalness from the Start
- 3. Teaching the Basics of Technique
- 4. Practising in the Early Stages
- 5. Assessing and Guiding Talent
- 6. Parents Beware!
- Part Four: The History and Repertoire of the Cello
- 1. An Introduction to the History of the Cello by Nona Pyron
- 2. The Repertoire of the Cello
- 3. List of Lesser Known Works
- Index
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of the music that provides the structure to guide the musician's imagination. He also shares insights into letting the cello speak for itself at the composer's bidding, in a voice appropriate to its musical context. A tutorial chapter is also included, as well as a personal account of the wide repertoire of the cello. This remains a comprehensive guide to the instrument for players and non-players alike
