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Aside from the tonal world which I know quite well, what kind of listening paths would you suggest to broaden my horizons a bit, and through which composers/works should one pass. (Re)precis...
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Frank
My previous topic had two souls, but many focused on a single question, so I am proposing it again.... It seems that Bollani claims the second Viennese school wrote pieces with direct action...
Far be it from me to assign labels to artists who may not want them; I myself am opposed to hasty definitions of a certain style that is difficult to classify... but it is clear that influen...
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Frank
I am opening this topic because I would be curious to know what you think about the use of this term (material) during the analysis of compositions that are not properly twentieth-century or...
From the topic http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2723-analizzare-musica-in-forma-sonata/ it frequently happens to find monothematic forms, whose analysis is certainly less i...
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I am reporting this insight from Frank regarding a writing by Feldman (I didn't want it to get lost in the reports. Feldman writes: āI think there are three things that work with me: my ears...
For long, dark years, Nino Rota was considered by official critics to be nothing more than a curious and picturesque case. A musician who, although endowed with great potential, had not know...
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Valchiria
Lately I often hear people citing the harmony manual by "Arnold Schoenberg" which I do not know and do not own. Could someone review it? I am a bit undecided whether to buy it.
I found this guide on the internet, I don't know how reliable it is... http://www.musictheory21.com/documents/readings-in-music-theory/cook-a-guide-to-musical-analysis-pp.260-293.pdf but I w...
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Frank
From this immense topic http://www.pianoconc...a-nella-musica/ I am taking inspiration from this post by Bianca And anyway, why preclude a path a priori? Why can't there be a work whose very...
I would like Bianca's suggestion not to be lost, so I am opening this topic: However, I wonder, how do you determine if a "section" is a "consequence" of another or not? Furthermore, expandi...
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Frank
Does anyone know how the YouTube and copyright issue works? I mean, if a work registered with SIAE were performed and published on the tube, would it grant some form of rights?
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Coming from http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/2504-elaborazione-narrativita-e-conseguenzialita-nella-musica Open a topic on Bach and Wagner and let's see the differences. Ye...
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thallo
Reading Alex Ross's second book these days, The Rest Is Noise (Bompiani 2011), I came across a quotation from one of Mozart's letters, contained in the volume Ā«W. A. Mozart, The letters of M...
Hello everyone, I wanted to ask your opinion regarding the Mozart/Haydn dichotomy. It is natural that the styles of these two composers are different, but do you notice any evident differenc...
Good morning everyone! If possible, I would need a small list of Bach's simplest chorales to start looking at and studying (for harmony and composition); any advice is welcome, thank you!
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DiesIrae
I know you mean ending in a major key when the piece is actually in a minor key... but why is it called exactly that? Is the criterion I described "universal"...? Thanks in advance
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antares86
Composed at sixteen years old. To think of how many forty-year-old musicians today are sitting there thinking "what will I do when I grow up?" Glazunov - Symphony No. 1
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Piccinesco
I was looking at the symphony proposed in CromaDiBrera's topic http://www.pianoconc...per-piano-solo/ My eye caught the theme (if I remember correctly, it was already the subject of the orch...
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AbateFaria
Good morning, I am here to ask with which analytical methodology you would approach Lieder and specifically those of Schubert. Do you know if there are specific texts on the subject (also in...
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Frank
Hi, I was taking a look at Schubert's sonatas. Do you think the theme of the fourth movement (Rondo) of D959 is already "prefigured" in the sonata D537? Do any other relationships of this ty...
I think that from 2014 I will no longer use SIAE for deposits; they have raised the annual fee from about 91 euros to 151, quite a blow, all without notifying members obviously, because no c...
Harmonic syncopation, until when/how much is it debatable? I am asking because it was "noted" during a workshop and I wondered, if I wanted to use it ... because sooner or later I will be ab...
To do composition at the conservatory, must one also study piano? Hi thanks
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Frank
