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Practice for Performance
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Strings - Beginning-Intermediate
SKU: MB.99640
For Cello and Related String Instruments. Composed by Daniel Morganstern. This edition: Saddle Stitch. Strings, Theory and Reference, Theory and Reference - Other, Cello, Classical, Saddle-stitched. Theory and Reference. Book. 40 pages. Mel Bay Publications, Inc #99640. Published by Mel Bay Publications, Inc (MB.99640).ISBN 9780786643646. UPC: 796279058056. 8.75 x 11.75 inches.
Practice for Performance provides a rare and intimate view into a very thoughtful and successful performers personal toolkit. Set in the context of his own personal history of growth as a performer, cellist Daniel Morganstern principal cellist for the Lyric Opera of Chicago and the American Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York displays rare honesty in discussing the problems that faced him at various point of his career, and the ways to solve them. The discoveries sensibly unfold in a fascinating account of experiences with many notable artists whose comments and examples shaped the authors thinking. These ideas are not to be found in any other treatise on the subject of musical preparation. The examples in this book, both musical and non-musical, offer a foundation to help evoke instinctive musical responses in the mechanical processes of playing the cello, and have been advantageously applied to other instruments as well, including voice.
- Introduction
- How I Studied the Cello
- Scales
- Trilling double stops, shifting, and fast moving scales
- The E major scale with added helper notes
- Two diverse rhythmic patterns
- Scale of D. C. Dounis to develop forte pressure and endurance
- Incrementally faster scales
- Long tones & bow changes
- Creating a Context
- Play from beginning to end
- Conception and execution
- Using syllables
- Rhythm and tempo
- Sound and bow arm development
- Melody and accompaniment
- Orchestral applications
- Non-Contextual Practicing
- Practice forward and backward
- Practice fast music with breaks
- Accent shifts
- Listen for the chord or tune produced by the first of three or four notes
- Feel the string through the bow
- Use bilateral transfer advantageously
- Pay attention when things are going well
- Practice one fifth lower to intensify tone
- Always warm up on slow pieces
- Practice in rhythms
- Intonation
- Use a recorder
- Use the process of association to improve intonation
- Relate the ear to the most stable notes
- Extra-Musical Aspects of Performing
- The psychology of performing
- Be Prepared
- Give yourself permission to fail
- Show up
- Career development
- Credibility and visibility
- One final thought
- Musical Examples-Cello Concerto
- Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A Minor, D. 821
- Ein Heldenleben, op. 40
- Suite No. 5 in C Minor, Fugue
- Suite No. 5 in C Minor, Gavotte I
- Suite No. 5 in C Minor, Gigue
- Ariadne Auf Naxos
- La Sylphide
- Etude No. 26 (Forward and Backward)
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Variation I
- Sonata In E Major
- Etude no. 4
- Etude no. 12
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Variation II
- Variations on a Rococo Theme, Variation IV
- Trio in B flat Major, Op. 99 D 898
- Etude no. 6
- Sonata No. 6 in A Major
- Un Ballo in Maschera, Act III No. 7
- Trio, Movement II
- Lucia, Finale
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