The Practice of Practising

Contents

• Contents
• Preface by Catherine Laws and Tânia Lisboa
• I. A self-study of learning the Prelude from Bach's Suite No. 6 for cello solo: Comparing words and actions
• - Tânia Lisboa, Roger Chaffin, Topher Logan
• Prologue
• Effective practice
• The investigation
• Stages and cycles in learning the prelude
• Relating practice and reports
• Comparing practice and comments
• Stage 1: exploration
• Stages 2 and 3: smoothing out and listening
• Stage 4: re-working technique
• Stage 5: preparation for performance
• Connecting theory and practice
• Coda
• References
• Acknowledgements
• II. Performer's harmony: towards a performance of Elliott Carter's Piano Sonata
• - Alessandro Cervino
• Preliminary remarks
• Getting started
• The process
• The practice of practising: a tool for knowing
• Afterword
• References
• III. Morton Feldman's Late Piano Music: Experimentalism in Practice
• - Catherine Laws
• Memory and subjectivity in Feldman's late music
• The problem of interpretation
• Palais de Mari and the contingencies of performance
• Practice as an experimental process
• References
• IV. Alfred Schnittke's Piano Trio: Learning and Performing
• - Maria Lettberg
• Introduction
• Preparation for rehearsals and recording
• Achieving affinity
• Conclusions
• References
• Personalia