The composer's landscape

"Montparker uses landscape as a metaphor for the score, whether it be a well-tended garden of Mozart, or the thorny thickets on a Schumann page: the topographical peaks and valleys, the circuitous melodic lines, the thoroughfares where all the voices convene. The discussions include thoughful suggestions for navigating these "landscapes" which differ so greatly from one composer to the next, taking note of the essential technical and interpretive elements, as well as the challenges for the "explorer pianist.""--Book flap.