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Stephen Chatman's Piano Fantasies (1993): An Instructional and Performance Guide for Teachers and Intermediate Piano Students

Contemporary repertoire is not commonly taught or explored by teachers during the intermediate level, when a student's musical training is transitioning to an advanced level. Nonetheless, it is important for piano instructors to be open-minded about contemporary music and have some perspective on the development of music repertoire in the future. The purpose of this dissertation is to provide a performance and pedagogical guide to Stephen Chatman's (b. 1950) Fantasies, from both technical and artistic viewpoints. The collection, which consists of eleven pieces, features a wide variety of contemporary idioms, styles, and means of notation. For instance, there are jazz-like syncopated rhythms, asymmetrical accents reminiscent of Primitivism, and Impressionistic or dissonant sonorities. Fantasies is not only a valuable tool for students to explore new sounds and improve their performing techniques while executing nontraditional notations and contemporary idioms, it is also a great teaching resource for instructors to promote students' musicality through hearing, seeing, and thinking. In this study, I provide individual, detailed descriptions for each of the pieces in the score, adding examples on how to address the difficulties they present to the performer. As a result, instructors can better understand how to help students prepare to perform this collection and spark their interest in playing contemporary music.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:unt.edu/info:ark/67531/metadc1505243
Date05 1900
CreatorsLi, Hanhan
ContributorsRomero, Gustavo, Beckman, Bradley, Banowetz, Joseph
PublisherUniversity of North Texas
Source SetsUniversity of North Texas
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeThesis or Dissertation
Formatvii, 44 pages : music, Text
RightsUse restricted to UNT Community, Li, Hanhan, Copyright, Copyright is held by the author, unless otherwise noted. All rights reserved.
RelationRecital: April 13, 2016, ark:/67531/metadc1614925, Recital: April 29, 2015, ark:/67531/metadc <not yet digitized>, Recital: April 28, 2017, ark:/67531/metadc <not yet digitized>

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