To browse Academia. Extended case studies then draw on the Chopin Etudes as the best possible illustration of these issues, using the many currently available primary sources: autograph manuscripts, manuscript copies, early editions, and student annotated scores.
Bridging this knowledge gap obviously requires extensive practice-led research of contemporaneous repertoire, as it is simply impossible to glean such information from the treatises alone.
Thus, in this study the word "fingering" and other stand-ins denote in whole or in part a variably intentional and conscious process ranging from the conception, practice, and optionally notation of finger choices. Incidentally, unless specified further, the abbreviation "piano" refers to both the historical pianoforte or fortepiano, as these terms were quite interchangeable in the period under discussion and the so-called 'modern' piano, unless specified further for some reason.
See, e. Mitchell New York: Norton, , p. They are: correct fingering, good embellishments, and good performance'.
Bellman, 'Chopin and the Cantabile Style', Historical Performance, 2 , 65 : 'In realizing his vocalistic keyboard style [β¦] Chopin could draw on techniques that, while not uncommon in his time, are as defunct today as his style'.
