I am developing the idea that perhaps it is the best path, so at least I can choose my own teacher
I did not intend to exhort you in that direction at all and, on the contrary, I do not believe at all that it is the best path (I only follow it because I have no alternatives). Furthermore, as others have more or less pointed out, a student is not able to choose their own teacher except with objective criteria of merit (curriculum, competitions, diplomas, etc.).
In general, I haven't yet understood if your teacher is exhorting you to abandon tonality (which, put that way, seems like a stretch to me) or if they are telling you "write old"; in this second case, I think the role of the teacher is entirely relevant, because "writing old" is not a matter related to tonality or otherwise... You should explain the circumstances and what they said to you better, in my opinion; otherwise, we are reasoning based on misunderstandings.
I am asking, but if someone goes to lessons to learn (ergo they don't know how to write yet or know how to do it "partially", is that a valid term?) how can the teacher say "write old"?
The teacher should have the mission of teaching techniques that, although contextualized within a style, then transcend grammatical and syntactic content.
The point is: whatever the teacher teaches is old... otherwise they would claim to turn their students into their own clones, which doesn't seem professional to me at all.
It's old because one can teach the past and not the present... something still to be assimilated to the point of being able to catechize it. I really don't see this contention, precisely because it cannot exist. At school they teach you "yesterday"... if you have understood the before well and are good, then you write "today"... and you are on your own.
Afterward there is criticism, perhaps musicological, but the composition teacher no longer has anything to do with it... at most one speaks of colleagues, of "competitors"
Hello people, I hope I'm not too off-topic, I wanted some advice on a good harmony manual that contains, in addition to basic harmony, also notions on jazz. My piano teacher until a few months ago had me use a harmony book by a certain Bass, but the problem is that he has this copy (in braille, so unreadable for me) and it seems to be outdated and out of print now. I trust this site very much for this, so I await your advice! thanks
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Daniele87 wrote:
Hello people, I hope I'm not too off-topic, I wanted some advice on a good harmony manual that contains, in addition to basic harmony, also notions on jazz. My piano teacher until a few months ago had me use a harmony book by a certain Bass, but the problem is that he has this copy (in braille, so unreadable for me) and it seems to be out of print now. I trust this site very much for this, so I await your advice! thanks
I would follow it "remotely," in the sense that since I resume university in October, I had proposed to my piano professor to study bit by bit from a harmony manual that I also have on hand, so that I can apply myself to exercises "on my own" and he would then act as a "checker" when I return to my town and go to his lessons... anyway, some time ago we had started some discussions regarding the harmonization of bass lines and the accompaniment of some very simple pieces that he gave me....I hear a lot about Piston, what do you think? thanks!
I trust this site very much, so I await your advice! thank you
And you are right to trust it; you will have noticed that many people put themselves out there by proposing their own pieces and recordings (I am speaking respectively of composers and performers). In short, in many cases, one also has the possibility to evaluate on the ground from which pulpit the sermon comes.
Which is not bad at all for a forum or anyway for a WEB space where you happen to find arrogant and incompetent tautologists who, at best, make you look like complete sh... (spreading various suggestions around) but even worse, you can waste a lot of time.
Go ahead with confidence on the Piston, it's worth it.
