The Art of Accompanying and Coaching

About this book

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 ones own rules and set ones 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 ones work; but on the other hand the task is hard be for instance: they have gone back and forth through as cause ones responsibility to present and future genera many periods of style as they wished. Only with a stu tions of accompanists and coaches is great.