Performance Practices in Classical Piano Music (Book & DVD) (Alfred Masterwork Edition) Review

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(More customer reviews)I received only the DVD.I don't know if I was supposed to receive a book or not.He spends a long time talking about tempo markings and what character each tempo marking indicates.You could learn this from a simple music dictionary.He mentions finger pedaling, which interested me a lot, but he only touches on the subject and gives absolutely no systematic treatment of it whatsoever.Nor does he give any systematic guidelines for foot pedaling.Ornaments are not mentioned.Neither are most score markings, including slurs and articulations.For much of the DVD he simply navigates through a few pieces, telling us superficial details about them as though we had never seen them before.It felt like an impromptu piano lesson.I would have liked to have seen him put more effort into actually helping the viewer become a better teacher and performer.He arranges for an expert dancer to take the stage to show dance influence.She comes out and does the gigue in silence.No music.Then he plays a minuet for a few seconds while she does the minuet.And I do mean *seconds.*And that is all we get.So much more could have been done.It felt like an opportunity wasted.Overall, Hinson's treatment of subjects in this DVD is just really, really superficial and disorganized.His performances of the musical examples are so insensitive they will make any high level musician wince.I sincerely wish I could put so little effort into something and manage to get it published.Wait, no I don't.

I don't know what the price of this item will be by the time the next customer reads this.My advice would be to purchase it if it's cheap and plan to skim it once, but don't go out of your way if you're looking for something excellent.This isn't it.

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Compositions by Haydn, Clementi, Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert are featured in this intriguing lecture on performance practices of the Classical era. Musical characteristics, period keyboard instruments, Italian terms and more are all discussed. Dance in

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