Practicing Successfully
A Masterclass in the Musical Art
Published on 1. February 2018
150 pages
978-1-62277-206-3 (ISBN)
Description
Has this ever happened to you? You begin to practice your [insert instrument of choice], and just when you reach a sixteenth-note passage, you are stopped cold. You repeat the offending section over and over to no avail--until your frustration causes you to quit in disgust.It need not be so! In Practicing Successfully, legendary music educator Elizabeth A. H. Green draws upon her decades of experience instructing students of all levels to break down the practicing regimen into a logical learning sequence.GIA Publications, Inc., is proud to bring to light this remarkable, timeless book Elizabeth Green completed in the last days of her life. This manuscript tragically remained undiscovered for many years.Green does not promise that practice will be easy, but with time, patience, and smart application of the suggested techniques, progress will come. She writes, "e;Ultimate success depends upon one immutable, inescapable, and well-publicized fact: the musician has to practice--successfully or not."e;
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Content
- Front Cover
- Title Page
- Half Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- To the Reader: On Using This Book
- Reflections on Elizabeth A. H. Green by Rebecca Ericsson Hunter
- Foreword by E. Daniel Long
- Introduction by H. Robert Reynolds
- Prelude
- Part One: The Practicing
- Chapter One
- First Part: Defeating Monotony with the Rhythmic Motif
- Chapter Two
- Practicing in Threes: Broadening the View
- Chapter Three
- Practicing in Fours: The Four-Note Motifs
- Chapter Four
- Practicing with Cross Accentuation: Developing New Challenges
- Chapter Five
- Practicing Sequences, Scales, and Accentuations (Substitution Accents)
- Chapter Six
- Practicing Modern Innovations: The Missing Technique
- Chapter Seven
- Practicing the Etudes: The Lengthened Attention Span
- Chapter Eight
- Practicing Sight-Reading: Why You Can't Sight-Read Easily
- Chapter Nine
- Practicing the Piano-A Stringed Instrument: Its Uniqueness
- Chapter Ten
- Practicing Double-Stops and Chords: For the Bowed Strings
- Part Two: The Instruments as Professionals See Them
- Chapter Eleven
- The Woodwinds: Flute, Oboe, Clarinet, Saxophone, Bassoon
- Chapter Twelve
- The Brasses: French Horn, Trumpet (Cornet), Trombone, Tuba (Euphonium)
- Chapter Thirteen
- The Strings: Violin, Viola, Cello, String Bass
- Part Three: Science and Teaching
- Chapter Fourteen
- The Brain and the Learning Process
- Chapter Fifteen
- Introducing the Child to Serious Practice
- Chapter Sixteen
- Summary on Teaching
- The Experts
- Acknowledgments
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Comprehensive Index
