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Re: Week 2 Assignment @Marc M This is wonderful! I thoroughly enjoyed listening, and as always appreciated your commentary, too.
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- TWI: Shaping Individual Interpretation with Piotr!
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Re: Week 2 Assignment @Piotr Kozłowski Thanks so much for offering this TWI. I learned much, though I didn't post after the beginning. I wasn't able to do as much as I'd hoped, but have been following along.…
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Re: Sounds of Summer: June Recital! I'd like to play live. I'll play either a RH only piece, "Chaconne in E Minor" by Melody Bober, or the Tchaikovsky op 39 no 7, "Sick Doll." Both are short.…
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! My chosen piece is "Menuetto," composed by Ignace Pleyel (born in 1757 as Ignaz, but changed the spelling when he moved to France). It is B817, and was published in 1796 or 1797,…
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Beautiful, charming, delicate playing. You play with such ease. Thank you for this gift today.
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- 11 days ago
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! @Piotr Kozłowski Thank you Piotr. I think I'll work on the Pleyel. It seems easier on the left hand (the Duvernoy had a lot of Alberti Bass type figurations in the left hand).…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: Week 1 Assignment! I'm excited to join this TWI. I still consider myself a beginner, though perhaps late elementary would be most accurate. I injured the fifth finger on my left hand a couple of months ago (partially…
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- 2 wk ago
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks so much, Vidhya!
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions @Gail Starr @Andrea Buckland @Derek McConville Thank you! This piece with some adjustments is being entered in a scholarship competition next month.
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist Working with an injury to the fifth finger, one can come up with some slightly creative fingering which still works (for some pieces). Here is the Mozart K-3, "Allegro" which I have been working on.…
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Gail Starr Thanks, Gail.
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist OK - first work on second species counterpoint. I am working with super short (two note) fragments from Peter Schubert's book (chapter 4). I made one error on the second exercise,…
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Re: Thurmond's Compositions One of Thurmond's recent compositions won first place in his age group in our state music teacher association's "Young Composer's Project," and he has been invited to perform at the state conference…
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Peter Golemme Thanks, Peter. I'm glad I had made this recording before spraining my finger. I'm hoping the finger will heal quickly, but nearly a week on and it's still swollen and super tender.…
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- 1 mth ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist @Peter Golemme My pleasure, Peter. I'll probably be doing more of this for the next little bit, because I've injured a finger. There is a singing component, too,…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme I'll start posting some of my attempts on writing counterpoint (currently only first species) against a Cantus Firmus - I posted a video today on my Practice Diary (https:…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Michelle's Diary of a Beginning Pianist I've begun the very beginning stages of learning counterpoint via writing first species counterpoint above or below a set Cantus Firmus. Here are some initial attempts:
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Juan Carlos Olite Thank you, Juan Carlos!
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme Yes, it's been fun (though very slow here at the beginning) to start learning counterpoint - which will lead to improvisation. My teacher is Johnandrew Slominski - he does have some…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: I feel so frustrated every time I practice a new piece by Bach @Peter Golemme Hi Peter. My son has a copy of the CPE Bach treatise. I got it used several years ago off of Thrift Books. Here is a link to some used copies.…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. Yes, it's healing well but I'm at that point where it's almost fully healed and there are certain things I can't yet play without risk of re-injury - so I'm trying…
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage @Peter Golemme yes, my teacher is pretty special. He teaches historical improvisation, too, and I’ve just begun learning about counterpoint (writing above a Cantus Firmus). Is this the commercial?
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Week 1: Voicing, Texture in Schumann's Music @Sachi Yes, I'll be lurking here in the background with you! I am not at the level of playing these pieces, yet - my foray into Schumann has been limited to his opus 68 Album for the Young.…
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- 2 mths ago
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- Two-Week Intensive: Exploring Robert Schumann
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Re: Tonebase Bach Stage Here is my latest attempt at playing Bach - the D minor Minuet from the Anna Magdalena Notebook, Anh 132.
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- 2 mths ago
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Re: Springtime Recital! @Vidhya Bashyam Thanks, Vidhya. It's been improving everyday - and playing helps it to feel better as long as I'm careful in what I play.
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- 2 mths ago
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