Beethoven's Fingerings as Interpretive Clues

Newman, William S.

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“…A saraband, for example, is a dance in which the second beat is stronger. On the other hand, these obvious rules are only a small subset of the interpretational rules that are piece, genre, pianist and composer dependent (Newman, ; Bamberger, ). In order to draw good conclusions about a trade‐off between interpretation and easiness of a fingering, additional research should be done.…”

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A variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for polyphonic sheet music

Balliauw

Herremans

Cuervo

et al. 2015

Int Trans Operational Res

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A piano fingering indicates which finger should play each note in a piece. Such a guideline is very helpful for both amateur and experienced players in order to play a piece fluently. In this paper, we propose a variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for complex polyphonic music, a frequently encountered case that was ignored in previous research. The algorithm takes into account the biomechanical properties of the pianist's hand in order to generate a fingering that is user‐specific and as easy to play as possible. An extensive statistical analysis was carried out in order to tune the parameters of the algorithm and evaluate its performance. The results of computational experiments show that the algorithm generates good fingerings that are very similar to those published in sheet music books.

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A variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for polyphonic sheet music

Balliauw

Herremans

Cuervo

et al. 2015

Int Trans Operational Res

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“…An explicit avoidance of weak fingers can be observed in the fingerings of certain pianists and pedagogues (e.g., Beethoven: Hiebert, 1986, Newman, 1982Chopin: Eigeldinger, 1986) but not others (e.g., Liszt: Walker, 1983). From an anatomic viewpoint, the fingers of the hand divide most naturally into the thumb and the other fingers (enabling grasping).…”

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An Ergonomic Model of Keyboard Fingering for Melodic Fragments

Parncutt¹,

Sloboda²,

Clarke³

et al. 1997

Music Perception

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The fingerings used by keyboard players are determined by a range of ergonomic (anatomic/motor), cognitive, and music-interpretive constraints. We have attempted to encapsulate the most important ergonomic constraints in a model. The model, which is presently limited to isolated melodic fragments, begins by generating all possible fingerings, limited only by maximum practical spans between finger pairs. Many of the fingerings generated in this way seldom occur in piano performance. In the next stage of the model, the difficulty of each fingering is estimated according to a system of rules. Each rule represents a specific ergonomic source of difficulty. The model was subjected to a preliminary test by comparing its output with fingerings written by pianists on the scores of a selection of short Czerny studies. Most fingerings recommended by pianists were among those fingerings predicted by the model to be least difficult; but the model also predicted numerous fingerings that were not recommended by pianists. A variety of suggestions for improving the predictive power of the model are explored. A significant upsurge in psychological studies of performance in the past 15 1. Davies, Kenny, and Barbenel (1989) investigated the interface between the trumpet mouthpiece and the mouth.2. We number the fingers according to standard keyboard practice: 1 = thumb, 2 = index finger, ..., and 5 = little finger. Italics distinguish finger numbers from other numbers in the text.

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Fingering: Historical Versus Modern Approaches

Swinkin

2015

Contemporary Philosophies and Theories in Education

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Beethoven's Fingerings as Interpretive Clues

Cited by 5 publications

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A variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for polyphonic sheet music

A variable neighborhood search algorithm to generate piano fingerings for polyphonic sheet music

An Ergonomic Model of Keyboard Fingering for Melodic Fragments

Fingering: Historical Versus Modern Approaches

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