Notes Become Music

Notes Become Music: A Guidebook from the Viennese Piano Tradition addresses the many unwritten nuances of dynamics, articulation, and agogics as an expression of fundamental principles of a common European musical language.

Walter Fleischmann is Professor Emeritus of Piano at the University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna.

1. Introduction: Musical Principles and the Limits of Notation / 2. Dynamics / 3. Articulation / 4. Agogics / 5. Pedal / 6. Notation / 7. Conclusion