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The Pianist's Dictionary

Maurice Hinson
ISBN-13: 978-0-253-21682-3
ISBN: 0-253-21682-6
MTNA 2005 Frances Clark Keyboard Pedagogy Award
An invaluable compact reference guide for every piano teacher, student, and performer.
The Pianist’s Dictionary is a handy and practical reference dictionary aimed specifically at pianists, teachers, students, and concertgoers. Prepared by Maurice Hinson, the best-selling author of Guide to the Pianist’s Repertoire, the work explains pianistic terms and performance directions clearly and concisely, with illustrations and brief musical examples. Hinson includes succinct entries concerning famous piano pieces and composers, leading performers and teachers, and piano makers—making The Pianist’s Dictionary the perfect reference for compiling program and liner notes. The volume collects many of Hinson’s most useful ideas that have appeared in his popular lectures and masterclasses over the years and have not been published elsewhere.

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