Looking for literature of history of piano teaching (pianistics?)

[hans]

Hello,

in the way of searching and reading postings about the thumb over method I wonder if there is any literature (book or weblink) about the history of teaching of piano, an overview of the different developments and their main exponents. Do you have any idea? (What is the correct term: pianistics?)
Further question: Who especially has established thumb-over? I suppose it's not so common yet (at least in Germany), because my teacher (Russian) couldn't tell me about it and recently I red an article in a news paper about Oscar Peterson and his "strange" way of using the thumb in rapid scale playing ...

Thanks
Hans

[leahcim]

(What is the correct term: pianistics?)

Pedagogy, technique or method probably find the most results if you're searching [prefaced with piano]

[hans]

@leahcim

thanks. I asked for the right term not for the searching strategy, but I want to know what the english term for the "science of piano playing" is. In Germany I've sometimes red "Pianistik".

Bye
Hans
 

[leahcim]

thanks. I asked for the right term not for the searching strategy, but I want to know what the english term for the "science of piano playing" is. In Germany I've sometimes red "Pianistik".

...and I thought I'd given you 3 terms for the price of 1

"piano pedagogy" "piano technique" "Piano method" - all are used.

There's a page here that discusses the various methods used historically - https://www.cs.bsu.edu/homepages/kevinp/PnoTech1.htm Note he calls it "piano technique"

Your own "science of piano playing" is a 4th as it seems perfectly good English to me
Although I think the scientific aspects aren't really part of the methods to call them science - a page or two of justification for a technique based on human anatomy mebbe - and, if you include practise, a page or two justifying that based on the way we learn. But if you're interested in history, they make medicine look like a science, which is no mean feat

At the extreme, a book that attempts to combine 3rd world economics, the structure of crystals, Beethoven and the number 1000 for some light entertainment in the appendix.

[hans]

Hello leahcim,

best thanks for the link. This paper is very interesting for me, because it gives good orientation of the different approaches of piano technique and their exponents.

If one speak of "science" of a certain field of more or less systematic ordered and proved knowledge depends of his understanding or definition of "science". I'm also a little bit sceptical of many of so called "sciences" and used inverted commas for "science of piano playing" to indicate my distance to this usage, because I prefer this for chemistry, physics and other "hard stuff" ;-) Instead of I find the german term "Pianistik" as general term for all fields related to the piano not so bad a choice.

Bye
Hans