IN WRITING a book for which there is no precedent (the tistic achievements. But, alas, there has not been such last textbooks about accompanying were written during a genius in the realm of music during the twentieth the age of thorough bass or shortly thereafter - the century. The creative musical genius of our space age eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries - and dealt has yet to be discovered, if he has been born. exclusively with the problems timely then) one must Our time has perfected technique to such a degree make one's own rules and set one's own standards. This that it could not help but create perfect technician freedom makes the task somewhat easier, if, on the one artists. Our leading creative artists master technique hand, one looks to the past: there is no generally ap to the point of being able to shift from one style to proved model to be followed and to be compared with another without difficulty. Take Stravinsky and Picasso, one's work; but, on the other hand, the task is hard be for instance: they have gone back and forth through as cause one's responsibility to present and future genera many periods of style as they wished. Only with a stu tions of accompanists and coaches is great.

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Book Title: The Art of Accompanying and Coaching
Authors: Kurt Adler
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-8365-3
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive
Copyright Information: University of Minnesota 1965
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4615-8367-7Published: 14 June 2012
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4615-8365-3Published: 06 December 2012
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 260
Number of Illustrations: 24 b/w illustrations
Topics: Music

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