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Article: The key to the pianist's world.
- Article from:
- American Music Teacher
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
- Author:
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The pianist must discover infinity in the vertical movement that makes up the small world of key descent. Because it's such a miniscule world--vertical movement of about three-eighths of an inch from the surface of the key to the bottom--key descent may impress us mostly by its insignificance compared to the lateral sweep of hands across the keyboard, but for the pianist the artistry that captivates an audience begins with key depression. In the early 1900s, piano pedagogue Tobias Matthay wrote several essays exploring this small but important universe and published them in a book entitled Pianoforte Tone Production (1903) and also in Visible and Invisible in Pianoforte ...
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