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Excerpt from The First Principles of Pianoforte Playing: Being an Extract From the Author''s the Act of Touch, Designed for School Use, and Including Two New Chapters Directions for Learners and Advice to Teachers
This little work is issued to render the teachings of The Act of Touch better available for the School-room and Class room, and as a Text-book for Examinations. It is intended as an Introduction to the subject.
The supreme importance of early training in this subject the mechanism of playing - need not be further dilated upon here, since it has been proved that Agility itself, and all those contrasts of Tone and Duration Which enable us musically to express ourselves through the Pianoforte, depend immediately on the proper fulfilment of the laws of Touch, the polemics of Which have been amply dealt With in The Act of Touch.
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This little work is issued to render the teachings of The Act of Touch better available for the School-room and Class room, and as a Text-book for Examinations. It is intended as an Introduction to the subject.
The supreme importance of early training in this subject the mechanism of playing - need not be further dilated upon here, since it has been proved that Agility itself, and all those contrasts of Tone and Duration Which enable us musically to express ourselves through the Pianoforte, depend immediately on the proper fulfilment of the laws of Touch, the polemics of Which have been amply dealt With in The Act of Touch.
About the Publisher
Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com
This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Publisher - Forgotten Books
Author(s) - Tobias Matthay
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ISBN - 9780265500569
Dimensions - 22.9 x 15.2 x 1.1 cm
Page Count - 150
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ISBN - 9781330360583
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