Palette of Touches, Intermediate
Composed by Joanne Haroutounian
Palette of Touches–Intermediate offers a way for developing pianists to gain an aural awareness of tonal colors available on the piano and the technical tools needed to produce them in performance.
The book introduces a variety of legato, staccato, and chordal touches through the following:
- Detailed descriptions, photographs, and online video clip demonstrations
- Recommended touch symbols to apply to printed exercises and scores
- Exercises specifically written to match each touch
- Excerpts from traditional piano literature for quick application
- Selected pieces of classic repertoire that feature each touch
Teachers and students learn to define interpretive decisions in music being studied using a descriptive, clear-cut “touch vocabulary,” assigning a level of weight into the key (key depth) to define dynamics, and through exercises and repertoire that allow students to physically fine-tune the sound and feel of these touches. The results can be remarkable. Student performances suddenly gain life and vitality!
Edition Number: WP619
ISBN 10 digit: 0849798124
ISBN 13 digit: 9780849798122
Media Type: Music Books
Instrument: Piano
Level/Grade: Intermediate
Contents:
Introduction
Single key and weight-into-the-key exercises
Legato touches
- Rotating Wrist Legato
- Old French Song – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Simple Legato
- Polonaise in F Major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Articulate Legato
- Little Prelude – Johann Christoph Bach
- Flat-Finger Legato
- The Doll’s Funeral – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Caramel Legato
- Evening in the Meadow – Vladimir Rebikoff
- Legato Collage Exercise
- Legato Collage Repertoire
- To A Wild Rose – Edward MacDowell
Staccato touches
- Wrist Staccato
- Polka – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Up Staccato
- Allegro Scherzando – Franz Joseph Haydn
- Portato
- Sonatina – Cornelius Gurlitt
- Scratch Staccato
- Minuet in F Major – Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
- Brush Staccato
- Siclienne – Robert Schumann
- Dig (Down) Stacatto
- Playing Soldiers – Vladimir Rebikoff
- Legato Collage Exercise
- Legato Collage Repertoire:
- Minuet – Pasquale Ricci
Chordal touches
- Placed Chord
- Menuet in C – Ludwig van Beethoven
- Up Chord
- Waltz in Bb – Franz Schubert
- Toss Chord
- Le Petite Reunion – Freidrich Bugmuller
- Shove Chord
- Sailor’s Song – Edvard Grieg
- Cling Chord
- In Church – Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky
- Legato Collage Exercise
- Legato Collage Repertoire:
- Waltz in C – Franz Schubert
Contemporary repertoire recommendations
Quick glance table of touches.