The teaching of Claudio Arrau and his pupils: Piano pedagogy as cultural work.
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Title
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The teaching of Claudio Arrau and his pupils: Piano pedagogy as cultural work.
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Identifier
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AAI3231979
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identifier
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3231979
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Creator
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von Arx, Victoria.
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Contributor
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Adviser: L. Michael Griffel
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Date
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2006
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Music | Education, Music
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Abstract
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Claudio Arrau was an iconic figure in classical music in the twentieth century. In addition to a major performing career, Arrau taught a sizeable class of students during the years from 1945 until about 1972. Most of these pupils aspired to performing careers, and many of them also became teachers whose instruction was informed by Arrau's principles. Their pupils in turn carried on the work of teaching with yet another generation of pupils.;This dissertation examines the sources of Arrau's principles in nineteenth-century piano pedagogy. Its focus narrows from a broader view of piano playing down to one individual, Arrau, and it enumerates and describes Arrau's principles of piano playing using Arrau's published interviews and the testimony of Arrau's pupils. From Arrau, attention shifts to the larger group of his pupils. Using interviews with teachers and transcriptions of lessons given by them and by Arrau, it describes how Arrau's principles have traveled from Arrau's pupils and their pupils. And finally, the scope narrows again to a select group of pupils of German Diez and their work with children at a community music school on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Thus, this study follows Arrau's teachings from their sources in the nineteenth century, through Arrau and his pupils who were concertizing professionals, to the training of children in their first lessons.;This study also discusses relationships between scholarly and pedagogical viewpoints on music. It studies the piano lesson in an attempt to discover what kind of experience it is, how it corresponds to notions of musical artistry, and how it builds up a capacity for independent musical expression.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
