The First Principles Of Pianoforte Playing

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	TOUCH Consists of:—
	THE RESTING The continuous Element		THE ADDED-IMPETUS The dis-continuous Element
	Is coexistent with the duration of each phrase or sustained note: Either absolutely continuous, as in all finger passages, or of resumed continuance, in Hand and Arm passages.		Lasts only during the moment of key-de­flection, and ceases instantly with the emission of sound, no matter what the kind of tone.
	FIRST, OR LIGHTER FORM, at key-surface only, is The Basis of all Staccati.	SECOND, OR HEAVIER FORM, at key-bed ; includes the first form, and is The Basis of all Tenuti and Legati. Suffices to depress the key at its softest, and to retain it depressed.*	Required to produce the sound in all staccati; also in all Tenuti and Legati of greater Tone-amount than pp. Its many-sidedness permits all tone-differ­ences both of Quality and Quantity. The various forms consequently required of it, are described in the Chapters that follow.
	Not heavy enough to depress the key; hence permits the key to rebound on the conclusion of the act of key-depression.
		(*)                       (b) Tenuto, and Legato, when all degrees of j the Tenuti are Duration less: transferred from than that, down | finger to finger, to staccato.
	• The Retting and the Added impetus are hence identical in ppp-Tenuto or Legato, which thus forme the only eimple form of Touch.