Alternatively-Sized Keyboards: Special Guest Q&A with Expert Carol Leone
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Last year we invited you to submit questions for Carol Leone about alternatively sized keyboards via our social media channels. We are pleased to give these newly updated answers a permanent home on our Discovery page. We...
Hand Span, Keyboard Size, and Ergonomics: One Size Does Not Fit All
with Ju-Yang (Dino) Chi, Rhonda Boyle, Carol Leone, Erica Booker, with Alejandro Cremaschi, Moderator This webinar shares the results of our recent Sydney University study, supervised by Dr. Bronwen Ackermann, Associate Professor and former editor of Medical Problems of Performing Artists. The study investigated the...
Chopin’s Polonaise Fantasie: A Love Story Expressed Through Song and Dance
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Beethoven’s Slow Movements
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Für Elise: Beethoven’s Infamous Composition
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question Ludwig van Beethoven THIS WEEK IN PIANO HISTORY, Beethoven composed his infamous bagatelle Für Elise WoO 59 on April 27, 1810. The short piece is built around a recurring theme that is unceasingly popular with pianists of...
This Week in Piano History: Beethoven’s Viennese Debut
Discovery homeSign up for email updatessubmit a question A portrait of young Beethoven THIS WEEK IN PIANO HISTORY, we celebrate Beethoven’s debut as a pianist in Vienna on March 29, 1795. At just twenty-four years old, Beethoven’s performance marked the beginning of a lifelong musical...
Presenter Portal: Promo Descriptions
Promotional Opportunities Presenter Portal Promotional Opportunities “5 Things” Lists Description: A “list” series highlighting interesting facts and ideas about composers, pianists, repertoire, history, teaching, and performing practice. Repurposed across multiple platforms for greatest exposure—TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, our Discovery page, etc. Topic does not have to...
Demystifying Tempo: Beethoven’s Slow Movements
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How Important Are Editions for the Earliest Repertoire?
Keyboard Companion Autumn 1994; Vol. 5, No. 3
Original manuscripts have evolved from Johann Sebastian Bach, whose hand-written copies (with occasional smudges) contain almost no markings, to Beethoven, who added not only precise dynamic markings and articulation but also included tempo markings from the newly-invented metronome. The highly-detailed scores of Ravel, Bartok, Kabalevsky,...
Size is key
September 2015; Vol. 7, No. 5
We expect so much in our lives to be tailor made to fit our individual sizes and needs. This morning, we got up, put on well-fitting clothes and shoes, and popped on our prescription glasses or contacts. We got into our cars and adjusted our seats, steering wheels,...
2015 Clavier Companion Collegiate Writing Contest Runner-Up: Survival of the fittest: A reevaluation of traditional scale and arpeggio fingerings
January 2016; Vol. 8, No. 1
Fingering holds a foundational place in fine piano technique. In the words of Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach, “More is lost through poor fingering than can be replaced by all conceivable artistry and good taste.”1 For many pianists, traditional fingerings for scales and arpeggios are chiseled in...
2019 NCKP Preconference Highlights
Summer 2019; Vol. 11, No. 3
NCKP has eleven subcommittees, comprised of leaders in each of the following subcommittee areas: collaborative performance, collegiate pedagogy teaching, creative music making, inclusive teaching, independent music teachers, music in early childhood, research, students and young professionals, teaching adults, technology, and wellness. Over seventy-five individuals serve...
A Trip Down Memory Lane: An Unmarked, Homemade Tape Recording Leads to a Reassessment of Salon Music and What Constitutes Musicality
September 2012; Vol. 4, No. 5
It started out as a “name that tune” exercise. In January 2010, my husband and I flew to New York to attend the annual Chamber Music America conference. During our visit, we had brunch with my brother Marc, a rock guitarist. In the course of...
Chopin’s Polonaise Fantasie: A Love Story Expressed Through Song and Dance
Carol Leone
Summer 2022: New Music and Materials, Recordings
New Music & Materials: Grade Level Descriptions DREAMS AND IMAGINATION: 10 ORIGINAL PIANO SOLOSarranged by Carolyn Miller, S 1-2 “It is my hope that students will mentally paint a picture in their minds of what the title describes before performing the pieces.” Student’s imaginations will...
