Basic Principles in Pianoforte Playing (Dover Books on Music) by Josef Lhevinne

Author:Josef Lhevinne [Lhevinne, Josef]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Dover Publications
Published: 2013-04-09T03:00:00+00:00

But in melodic passages it is very offensive to have a “sound bump” at the end of the tone. Therefore, at the end of the tones in melodic passages the student reverses the process by which he produces the tone. The wrist must be gradually raised until the finger leaves the key, as an airplane leaves the ground; and, of course, the key itself ascends gradually and the damper touches the wire without the “bumping off” sound. Many, many students strike the keys right but do not seem to have mastered the very simple, but very vital principle of releasing them so that there is no jerkiness. Details? Aha—these are the details upon which those who aspire to be masters work their hardest.

Although we have reached the third chapter of our discussion of this fascinating subject—which has so much to do in determining how to play the instrument so that it will be really musical in contrast to the street piano—we have been able as yet to cover only a few of the main points. In the next chapter we shall take up the matter of how to acquire great delicacy of touch and its antithesis, great power. This will be illustrated by a rare Russian portrait of Anton Rubinstein in a position at the instrument in which we shall attempt to show how that famous “lion of the keyboard” produced some of his powerful effects.

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