Piano Playing, with Piano Questions Answered

Studying, importance of, with the right teacher, 140.

Syncopated notes, 71.

System, universal, of fingering, 27.


Teachers, lessons, and methods, 140.

Technical, exercises, 47.
work, 18, 45, 46.
studies, 46.
results, 48.

Technique, a generic term, 3.
how to improve the, 4.
a precise finger, 16.
of the fingers, 22.
repetition, 34.
a "musical," 38.

Tempo, wrist staccato at a high, 21.
to work up a fast, 53, 54.
average, 60.
in the A flat Impromptu, 87.
taking liberties with the, 89.
rubato, 100, 101.

"Tenuto" dash, the, 69.

Textbooks on harmony, 106.

Thalberg, 91, 92.

Theory, 104.

Thirds, double, 35.
diatonic, 35.
chromatic, 35.

Thomas, Ambroise, 136.

Thumb, the, 14.
how to hold the, 16.

Tie, a, 63.

Time, duple, against triple, 96, 98.
playing in, 151.

Toccata, meaning of, 111.

Touch, faulty, 8, 43.
finger, 19, 50.
biting the finger-nails spoils the, 19.
legato, 24, 63.
crisp legato, 24.
piano, 26.
organ, 26.
repetition, 34.
charm of Chopin's, 86.
and Technique, 155.

Training, a child's musical, 138.

Transcriptions, study of operatic, 91.

Transposing at sight, 119.

Tremolo, 11.

Trill, position of auxiliary note in a, 72.

Trills, on the melodic note, 72.
extended, 72.
difference in playing, 74.

Triple time, 96, 98.

"Twelve Etudes for Technique and Expression," 94.


Universal system of marking fingering, 27.


Valse, Chopin's, opus 42, 61.
opus 64, No. 2, 88.


Waltz, a chord in the, in E minor, 89.

Waltzes, Chopin's, 86.

Weak fingers, 18.

Weber's "Storm," 41.
pianos of, time, 41.
"Perpetuum  Mobile," 112.

"Wonder-children" as pianists, 152.

Wrist, action of the, 9.
the loose, 9.
position of the, 10.
stiffness in the, 10.
octaves, 31, 32.
stroke in long octave passages, 32.