The Art of Teaching Piano | Piano Pedagogy and Teacher Resource for Piano Teachers, Music Educators, and Instructors | Comprehensive Piano Teaching Methods, Student Development, Group Lessons

by Denes Agay

(Yorktown). This is the definitive work on consummate piano teaching. Edited by world-renowned piano pedagogue Denes Agay, this comprehensive volume covers a wide range of musical styles and concepts, coaching processes, and teaching materials. As well as exploring every possible technical aspect of teaching piano, the book contains a great deal of commonsense advice on communicating with pupils, encouraging good behavior, and establishing a genuinely creative teacher/pupil relationship. Twelve distinguished contributing authors cover topics that include instilling performance and keyboard skills; teaching both young children and adult beginners; designing teaching programs for handicapped students; giving group piano classes; organizing and presenting recitals; and more.

Genres: Music

519 pages, Paperback

First published May 1, 2004

Reviews

[Laura]

Perhaps this book should have been titled "The Art of the Piano." While it covered many teaching concepts, I found it to be an excellent general reference text. I suspect I will refer back to this text frequently, but I'll need to find another book for more specific teaching concerns.

[Michael]

There is a quite a lot of excellent advice in this book. My only complaint (which doesn't really detract from the quality of the book) is that it spends most of its time talking about piano playing, and not as much about piano teaching.

[Kristy]

This is a Great book!! So helpful!