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Contents
- About the Companion Website
- Introduction
- Part I Fundamental Forms as Foundation
- 1 The Major Scales
- 2 The Major Connection and Minor Scales
- 3 Chords, Arpeggios and Extended Harmonies
- 4 Other Scale Fingerings
- Chromatic-Diatonic Compounds
- 5 Core Topographies and Rational Solutions
- PART II The Double Note Challenge
- 6 Double Notes: An Overview in an Evolutionary Context
- 7 Toward a More Rational Fingering for Double Notes
- 8 Double Sixths and Other Double Notes
- PART III Topography, Strategy and Symmetry
- 9 Fundamental Strategies
- 10 Fundamental Principles for a Natural Fingering
- 11 Topography, Symmetry and Lines of Action
- PART IV The Topographical Advantage: Explorations in Keyboard Space
- 12 Topography and Pedagogy
- From the Beginning
- 13 Topography and Tonality
- Early Repertoire
- 14 Intimations of Symmetry
- Chopin's Pattern as Fundamental Tool
- Retooling and Repertoire
- Epilogue
- Endnotes
- Glossary
- Bibliography
- Subject Index
- Available Online at www.oup.com/us/naturalfingering
- Excerpts from the Repertoire for Chapters 1-8, 11 and 14
- Appendix 1 Single Note Diatonic Scales: the Major Forms
- Appendix 2 Single Note Diatonic Scales: the Minor Forms
- Appendix 3 The Arpeggios
- Appendix 4 Historical Fingerings for the Chromatic Scale
- Appendix 5 Diatonic Double Third Fingerings: An Evolution
- Appendix 6 The Chromatic Scale in Double Notes
- Appendix 7 Double Third Diatonic Scales: The Major and Minor Forms
- Appendix 8 Double Sixth Diatonic Scales: The Major and Minor Forms
- Appendix 9 E. Robert Schmitz: Six Fundamentals of Training
- Appendix 10 Technical Aspects of a Natural Pianism