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The 19th Century Tarantella for Piano: A Pedagogical Guide to Performance and Leveling

Brown, Myron D.
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1302883737

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2011, DMA, University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music: Piano.
This document’s primary function is to explore a rarely encountered musical genre, the tarantella. The tarantella is a dance form whose origins have been long shrouded in mystery. Perhaps as a result, there has been very little written about the subject—both in terms of the dance itself and the actual music. Many of the major music encyclopedias and piano literature textbooks only make brief mention of the genre. Some of the greatest composers have written tarantellas for solo piano, but these pieces are not considered to be among their most important works. With only a few exceptions, these works are not performed or recorded very frequently. Tarantellas have great artistic and pedagogical value, and can hold their own alongside works of the standard performance repertoire. Along with general background information about the tarantella, this document will discuss notable tarantellas for solo piano from the 19th century, annotate them for technical challenges and pedagogical solutions, and level them according to difficulty.
Jane Conda, PhD (Committee Chair)
Elizabeth Pridonoff, MM (Committee Member)
Eugene Pridonoff, MM (Committee Member)
110 p.
Music
tarantella; piano; 19th century; tarantism

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  • Brown, M. D. (2011). The 19th Century Tarantella for Piano: A Pedagogical Guide to Performance and Leveling [Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1302883737

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Brown, Myron. The 19th Century Tarantella for Piano: A Pedagogical Guide to Performance and Leveling. 2011. University of Cincinnati, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1302883737.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Brown, Myron. "The 19th Century Tarantella for Piano: A Pedagogical Guide to Performance and Leveling." Doctoral dissertation, University of Cincinnati, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1302883737

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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