Biblioteca de la Guitarra y Cuerda Pulsada

The  objective  of  this  study  is  to  examine  the  various  aspects  of  the  piano performance, taking in regard that the repertoire to be performed is “Spanish”. This factor can be compartmentalized into a few different angles. Those angles are the pedagogic  (piano  pedagogy  adapted),  historical (as  a  chronological  study  of repertoire), and instrumental(building parallels from other related instruments of the Spanish keyboard genres). These important factors are even more “sharpened” by the fact  that  a  large  percentage  of  the  intermediate  and  advanced  Spanish  piano repertoire is affected by flamenco. It is this study’s primary aim to get all these factors together, and present an exemplifying “ideal” study/ analysis and perception method for the piano repertoire aforementioned.

Performing the piano repertoire of Spanish composers with the utmost concern on authenticity necessitates one of the two: either a natural awareness that a pianist would  have-  having  been  born into  the  culture, this person  would be  using the experience  and background  that  a  native  artist  has  of  his/her own culture;  or  a pianistic approach that would be supported and reestablished for the medium of Spanish music by some external supportive research into the culture. This is probably one of the reasons why this study would prove useful for people who are partially aware of the cultural background that a native pianist would have, and benefit from the additional factors and approaches discussed in detail in concordance with the repertoire.

A question might be asked whether a distinct “Spanish Piano School” really exists. This  would  mean considering whether  it is just  a hybridization  of  the reknown French and German piano schools subjected into a chronological outline- or a school that bears individual characteristics and traits. At this point, the evolution of the piano technique projected into the Spanish composers’ historical outline necessarily points  out  the  need  to  pin  down  the  factor  of  authenticity  since  it  becomes  an important key concept in making this decision about the Spanish Piano School...)

A Study on the authenticity and evolution of piano technique for spanish piano music