«The challenge of a teacher is to inspire students who don't think of making music a profession.»
The heart of Remo Vinciguerra's methodological approach permeates every page of this Grand Method: a fundamental, articulated and creative work, in which the experience of the "most beloved teacher of young pianists" is distilled, almost a spiritual testament for future generations of teachers and students.
Designed for the preparatory years and for the first course, the Grand Method - in two books - accompanies young pianists according to a gradual and progressive program, capable of combining theory and practice in a single, compelling journey of discovery.
Learning develops by playing, in a dialogue characterized by master-pupil complicity, with music as the protagonist. The accompaniment of the teacher enriches the learning experience from the first notes and keeps the motivation alive.
Through original and beautiful pieces, young students thus learn to read the notes in the two treble and bass clefs, to develop the technique and articulation of the five fingers by becoming familiar with the keyboard, and to immediately cultivate musicality and expression. From the exercises with a single note, at the opening of the first book, to the more complete studies of the second, every aspect of piano technique and music theory is addressed in depth.
The story is the common thread of the entire journey: from a didactic device to introduce the different topics to an interpretative outline of the pieces, until it ideally reunites with the Maestro's narrative works and finally nourishes the creativity of the young pianists.
In this first book:
- foundations of musical theory and language, presented in a narrative key;
- positioning of the hands and fingers on the keyboard, up to the passage of the thumb within the octave;
- microdictations, studies, songs, sonatinas, canons, dances;
- pieces inspired by classical composers, proposed in an essential and suggestive writing. Theoretical-practical method for studying the piano.
