Training Piano Students
The training of piano students with traditional theoretical principles; figured bass, secondary dominants, types of cadences, etc. are an egregious waste of time,
The training of piano students with traditional theoretical principles; figured bass, secondary dominants, types of cadences, etc. are an egregious waste of time,
Music is a language, therefore follows much of the same principles as the spoken language. For example, we may see an octagonal sign
The ‘tonic’ is the first and basic ‘tone’ of any scale. The ‘dominant’ is the fifth degree of any scale. The ‘mediant’ is
“…I have repeatedly had students come for instruction who have after great effort prepared one, two, or at the most three show pieces,
To the gifted and experienced musician, music is a language—to be understood in sentences, paragraphs and chapters. The student who is still struggling with
“…I have repeatedly had students come for instruction who have after great effort prepared one, two, or at the most three show pieces,
amateur (Fr) fr amour, love: to love what one does, i.e. non-professional amateur d’art art lover.
Avec une grande emotion With great emotion
Eviscerate: (En) To remove the contents of. Figured bass is a specialized theory for the Baroque specialist, not for the general music student, and
Convolution: (En) that which is complex and difficult to follow. twist, contortion, entanglement. The theory of the secondary dominant is a convoluted theory