The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering, the much-anticipated companion to Joseph Banowetz'sThe Pianist's Guide to Pedaling, provides practical fingering solutions for technical musical passages. Banowetz contends that fingering choices require much thought and consideration and that too often these choices are influenced by historical traditions and ideas rather than by actual performance conditions. By returning to the unedited original compositions, he strives to help the advanced pianist think through the composer's musical intent and the actual performance tempo and dynamics when selecting the fingering. Banowetz also includes valuable contributions by Philip Fowke, who examines redistributions by Benno Moiseiwitsch in Rachmaninoff's compositions, and Nancy Lee Harper, who explores the often very different approaches to fingering found in keyboard music of the Baroque era.
The Performing Pianist's Guide to Fingering will be useful to the advanced pianist and to instructors looking to guide students in improving this important art.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Fingering Techniques
1. Fingering Keyboard Works of Selected Composers and Styles
Appendix: The Fingering of Benno Moiseiwitsch in Manuscript Illustrations
Bibliography
Part II: Baroque Fingering and Interpretation: What Can a Modern Pianist Learn?
Introduction: The Pianist's Dilemma
2. An Overview of General Baroque Fingering Concepts
3. Articulation (attack, decay, lifting, slurring, Affekt)
4. Hand splitting or Re-distributions, Stemming, and Cross hands
5. Crossing and Turning of the Fingers
6. Repeated Notes, Glissandi, Musical Figures, and the Overdot
7. Fingering in Ornamentation
8. Fingering in Chords and in Chordal Realizations
9. Bach's Poetic Meter
10. Singing with the Fingers
11. Dancing with the Fingers: A Guide to Understanding Scarlatti's Iberian Sonatas when Choosing a Fingering
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
