The pianists offered several of Kurtag's Bach transcriptions and selections from his "Jatetok" ("Games"), a collection of witty and expressive miniatures for two- and four-hand piano that he began writing in 1973, initially as pedagogical pieces.
126) and works by Bartok including "Three Burlesques" and the technically challenging "Six Dances in Bulgarian Rhythm" from "Mikrokosmos," a collection of pedagogical pieces in which Bartok aimed to mesh Eastern folk music, the Germanic tradition of Bach and Beethoven, and the harmonies of Debussy.
After intermission the Kurtags (who have been married for more than 60 years) performed selections from "Jatekok" ("Games"), a multivolume collection of expressive, imaginative miniatures for two- and four-hand piano that Mr. Kurtag began writing in 1973, initially as pedagogical pieces.
At the outset of the organization's formation, LTC partnered with the online theatre platform HowlRound to create a repository of essays, interviews, pedagogical pieces, and reviews called Café Onda.
One is that economics textbooks probably talk too much about high inflation; it's a nice pedagogical set-piece, but not something that's a real issue in today's world.
On Sunday Mr. Kurtag and his wife, Marta, perform transcriptions and selections from "Jatekok" ("Games"), which he began composing in 1973 after being commissioned to write some pedagogical piano pieces and continued to write after the project was completed.
Was Frey's selection an implicit validation of that most controversial pedagogical set-piece, the creative writing workshop?
Arranged in ascending order of difficulty, the pieces remain pedagogical favorites.
The journal also actively engages the pedagogical community by incorporating pieces on the teaching of Greek, Latin, and classical civilizations.
By Eileen Reynolds September 27 , 2010Virginia Heffernan's recent Times piece in defense of the pedagogical value of "drilling" made me wish, momentarily, that I'd gone to school during the American heyday of rote memorization.
