Pianos and Pianism: Frederic Horace Clark and the Quest for Unity of Mind, Body, and Universe

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Chapter 1 List of Figures
Chapter 2 Foreword
Chapter 3 Preface
Chapter 4 Introduction
Chapter 5 1 The Life of Frederic Horace Clark
Chapter 6 2 Anna Steiniger's Life and Education
Chapter 7 3 Clark's Writing's
Chapter 8 4 The Religion and the Science of the "Cherubim-Doctrine" and of the Harmonie
Chapter 9 5 The New Technique
Chapter 10 6 The Harmonie-piano: "Soul-Mirror"
Chapter 11 7 The Philosophy's of Pure Pianism and Its Consequences
Chapter 12 8 The Three Impromptus Op. 4: A Compendium of the Clark-Steiniger Piano School
Chapter 13 9 Clark and His Contemporaries
Chapter 14 10 Today's Perspective
Chapter 15 11
Conclusion
Chapter 16 Appendix A: F. H. Clark's Concert Programs
Chapter 17 Appendix B: F.H. Clark's Impromptu Op. 4 No. 3 "Hiawatha"
Chapter 18 Appendix C: F. H. Clark's Edition of Six Etudes by Cramer
Chapter 19 Bibliography
Chapter 20 Index
Chapter 21 About the Author

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Pianos and Pianism is an assessment of Clark's work and his place in the history of the development of piano technique. The central part of the book deals with his Harmonie-piano, a 2-part keyboard construction designed to be played while standing. In considerable detail, the author discusses the aspects of this twenty-five year development, the product of Clark's philosophy on technique— that the pianist's musical sensibilities should be impeded as little as possible by the physical demands of playing. Frederic Horace Clark stands in a quite isolated, but worthy, niche in the history of music and the time has come now to cast away old prejudice and remember his ideas for the benefit of all humanity.

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