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Attitudes And Thoughts On Tone Quality In Historic Piano Teaching Treatises, Jeongsun Lim
Attitudes And Thoughts On Tone Quality In Historic Piano Teaching Treatises, Jeongsun Lim
Theses and Dissertations
Various approaches to the perception and production of tone quality on the piano have been suggested throughout the history of piano pedagogy. Tone quality differences are controversial among physicists, acoustic scientists, pianists, and piano pedagogues. Studies and research began to investigate tone quality with scientific experiments, and physicists and scientists asserted that differences in tone quality are differences in pitch, intensity, duration, and in combinations of tone and noise. They asserted that tone quality does not change with different physical touches and the pianist cannot control the quality of the tone. However, pianists and pedagogues believed that pianists have control …