Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique - A Supplement to The Act of Touch and First Principles

Commentaries on the Teaching of Pianoforte Technique is a 1910 guide to playing the piano by Tobias Matthay. Written as a supplement to Matthays definitive books The Act of Touch and First Principles it contains further information on some of the more detailed areas and complicated techniques. This volume is highly recommended for those who have read Matthays previous works and will be of utility to intermediate players and students. Contents include: The Principle of Forearm Rotation Arm-vibration etc. On Pianissimo Playing The Merging of the Three Species of Touch-Instruction The use of Bad Touch-forms The Artificial Legato-element The Distinction between Fore Arm and Whole Arm Weight and Movement etc. Tobias Augustus Matthay (1858 - 1945) was an English pianist composer and teacher. He was taught composition while at the Royal Academy of Music by Arthur Sullivan and Sir William Sterndale Bennett and he was instructed in the piano by William Dorrell and Walter Macfarren. Other notable works by this author include: The Act Of Touch In All Its Diversity: An Analysis And Synthesis Of Pianoforte Tone Production (1903) The First Principles of Pianoforte Playing (1905) and Relaxation Studies (1908). Many vintage books such as this are increasingly scarce and expensive. It is with this in mind that we are republishing this volume now in an affordable modern high-quality edition complete with a specially-commissioned new biography of the author.