Etudes for Piano Teachers: Reflections on the Teacher's Art

Etudes far Piano Teachers

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Etudes for Piano Teachers Reflections on the Teacher'*) Art STEWART GORDON

New York Oxford OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS 1995

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Copyright © 1995 by Oxford University Press, Inc. Published by Oxford University Press, Inc.,

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9876543 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper

To Today's New Davidites — that is, to those who love the piano, who love teaching the piano, and who will fight to see that the wonderful tradition of piano playing and teaching will live on in our society.

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Preface

Between the fall of 1973 and the beginning of 1982, a series of twenty-seven pedagogical articles appeared in the American MIL