Accompaniment in America: Contextualizing Collaborative Piano - Hardcover

by Chanda Vanderhart (Author)

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.

Author Biography

Chanda VanderHart is a pianist and musicologist whose research interests include music history and sociology, gender studies, art song, performance, cultural institution studies, digital humanities, Musikvermittlung, and artistic research. She has been on the faculty of the mdw-University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna, since 2017 and is a Senior Researcher at the Universität für Weiterbildung in Krems. VanderHart cofounded 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.