Accompaniment in America

Contextualizing Collaborative Piano
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-032-88797-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 152 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm

Piano accompaniment, or collaborative piano, is an invizibilized force driving classical music. This hybrid study, combining text and multimedia, explores its history, evolution, and transformation into a recognized academic discipline through archival research, expert interviews, and digital resources.

This publication delves into the origins and institutionalization of collaborative piano, tracing its development from the early 20th century to the present day. It highlights a profession often overlooked, introduces pioneering figures including Gwendolyn Koldofsky, and maps the establishment of over 100 degree-granting programs across North America. With an interactive data visualization tool, QR codes linking to compelling first-hand accounts and extensive archival materials, it offers a vivid, multidimensional journey through the field’s past and present. Through contextualizing the profession within broader sociological and academic frameworks through analysis of its pedagogical, gendered, and institutional dynamics, this work fosters a deeper understanding of collaborative piano’s past, present, and future, while advocating for its recognition and advancement.

Accompaniment in America: Contextualizing Collaborative Piano is essential reading for musicians, music students, educators, scholars, and administrators, as well as anyone interested in the intersection of collaborative piano history, performance practice, and academia. It is a valuable resource for both students and professionals seeking to understand the complexities of this field still broadly misunderstood and its pivotal role in classical music

Zielgruppe

Academic, Postgraduate, Professional Practice & Development, and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Vanderhart, Chanda

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Pädagogik Lehrerausbildung, Unterricht & Didaktik Allgemeine Didaktik
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikinstrumente Tasteninstrumente

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Figures

Chapter 1: Preludes and Preambles

Chapter 2: Gwendolyn Koldofsky, Pathfinder and Pioneer

Chapter 3: Establishing the Field

Chapter 4: Proliferation, History, and Persistent Refrains

Chapter 5: 21st Century Collaborative Counterpoint

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Chanda VanderHart is a pianist and musicologist whose interdisciplinary research interests include music history and -sociology, gender studies, art song, cultural institution studies, digital humanities, Musikvermittlung, and artistic research. She has been faculty at the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna since 2017, co-founded the interdisciplinary concert series Mosaïque, the multimedia storytelling platform Talespin, Musical Tales for Big and Small, and the podcast series on gender and art song piano Too Many Frocks.