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Re: Week 3 Thread: Galant Style for Galant People 🕴
@Roy James-Pike Allegri's...
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- Mozart & Haydn - Music from the 18th Century! 🏰
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Re: Week 3 Thread: Galant Style for Galant People 🕴
It is said that Mozart copied out all of the voices for Allegir's Miseri, note for note, when he was fourteen years old. He said [allegedly] that we only hear one and a bit voices at the same time.…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Roy James-Pike @Antonella Di Giulio Double [triple?] negative...apologies...it's not a Freudian slip... Correction... 'It's not that I think that TB is not a safe space...' etc.
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio Thank you again. You have confirmed that my approach is similar to your own. I am building up my technique in stages. I have looked at the whole of the Kuhlau and the Mozart and…
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Re: Rhapsodic Brahms: his style, technique and musicality feat. Rhapsodie op.79 no.1
@Pauline Me too.
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio One day perhaps but not yet, certainly not the Mozart. It would be sacrilegious! I am returning to the piano late in life. My first target was to practise all of the major and…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
We went to a piano recital on 10 August given by Eric Lu, an American pianist who won the Leeds Piano Competition in the UK in 2018. The last American to win the Leeds was Murray Perahia.…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Sindre Skarelven Thank you Sindre. The Kuhlau is charming. It has to be said that he is known for being the 'Beethoven of the Flute', but Kuhlau compositions are not Beethovian.…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio thank you. The chromatic shifts are very good for ensuring that one's attention stays focused. I am using 123, 1234 everywhere possible for playing chromatically, e.g.…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio I knew the non-consecutive rule of the octave and fifths. I have started to read the treatise and I am going to work through it at the piano to understand the concepts.
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio One day I intend to read more about the teaching role of 'Pappa Haydn' [Michael Haydn] for Mozart. It is unlikely that Leopold would have taken on that role,…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio Thank you. That makes so much sense. They are now sounding far less post-modern!
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
I am working on trying to establish a number of sequences, which started from @George Ko and his sessions on classical improvisation. I was intrigued by the comment from @Antonella Di Giulio that…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio Just seen this... I should have watched this before writing my comment above about the chord structures! I shall watch this tomorrow.
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio This is so interesting to see how Mozart tabulated copioulsy the range chords and their delivery that must have formed part of his learning as a child,…
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Re: Week 2 Thread: The Era of Haydn and Mozart! 🐴
@Antonella Di Giulio I have looked at the Romanesca. Please clarify that on chord 2, 7 = B, 3 = E, 6 = A, and 1 = C, i.e. on the assumption that this is in C major.…
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Re: What is your favorite Beethoven Piano Concerto?
@Dominic Cheli Me too, if I had to choose, but then they are breath-takingly beautiful so why be exclusive? We heard Mitsuko Uchida play the 4th a few weeks ago.…
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- Discussion of the Week
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Re: Understanding and creating your own Cadenza (in the classical style) with David Kaplan
@Roy James-Pike It's been corrected as the 'coding' session is on 5 July.
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Re: The Hidden Secret of Musical Codes in 18th Century Music with Dr. Antonella Di Giulio
@Antonella Di Giulio It is now showing as 5 July. I am sure it was showing as 7 July previously. Looking forward to it!
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Re: Problem with fingers' strength
We are all supposed to do stretching exercises before we play every day, although I do not. The reason being that I use a keyboard all day with my computer so my fingers are constantly moving.…
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Re: Understanding and creating your own Cadenza (in the classical style) with David Kaplan
Tonebase is showing two live streams for this day and time. Is this an error?
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- 3 yrs ago
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Re: The Hidden Secret of Musical Codes in 18th Century Music with Dr. Antonella Di Giulio
Tonebase is showing two live streams for this time on the same day. Is that an error? The other one is about cadenzas.
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Re: Week 4: Improvise Like Debussy & Ravel
Thank you George for your inspirational session on improvising. Your clarity is beautiful. You are so encouraging about broadening our horizons! I loved that you finished your 4th session with 'it's…
- Roy_JamesPike
- 3 yrs ago
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- Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Week 2: Why did we ever stop improvising? And why we shouldn’t.
@George Ko Hello George, sorry about this but I am assuming that your next TB session will be on the coming Thursday, and if so, I have double-booked that Thursday evening.…
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- 3 yrs ago
- Improvising Classically with George Ko!
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Re: Sign-Up: Improve your Scales in Two Weeks!
I have been away from home doing different things for most of the last three weeks so sorry not to sign up for this but I can see that you have over 140 people already as I saw the live stream…
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- 3 yrs ago
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- General Information and Sign-Up!
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