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- November 21st, 2011 No Comments » Written by: admin
Cesi-Marciano no.1
One of the most important piano books for beginners, alongside the Beyer, is the Cesi-Marciano (vol.I). While studying the Beyer you learn the technique, with the Cesi-Marciano you learn all the other essential capabilities, such as interpretation.
Every Tuesday will be dedicated to a new exercise from the Cesi Marciano. I hope that will be helpful…!
Theme and variation M. Clementi
This piece is very simple, there isn’t much to say, the right hand plays on 5 notes for the whole piece, and in the second part of the piece you just move your hand a note below to find the correct fingering.
The left hand accompanies with quarter notes.
Phrasing
Phrasing is a very important part of a piece, but in this case, there aren’t specific phrases. The left hand plays always legato notes, while the right has to disengage after each phrase.
The third system starts the variation of the theme, where the left hand “ties” the quarter notes through eighth.
Dynamic
The piece is to be played all in mf.
Have a good work!
To download the score click Here
Buon lavoro!
Exercises 58 -59 Beyer op.101 Lesson N°36
- November 19th, 2011 No Comments » Written by: admin
Exercises 58 -59 Beyer op.101 Lesson N°36
You will surely have noticed that the bass clef there has become more familiar, a little more time and so have certainly benefited. Well, now you will add to your baggage certain concepts and actions that we neglected: the dynamic.
To increase the pathos and emotions in all the pieces that we know, we have the variations in the intensity noise: the plan to strong, the strong floor etc… on the basis of the emotions that we want to raise with a song. A romantic melody will for example sweet and played with delicacy, probably running a strong and decisive.
The Beyer introduces us to this point of the symbols that guide the student in dynamic, ( <) indicates a crescendo, ( >) a decreasing. When we meet a growing sound intensity will gradually grow, while with a dimuendo declines.
The exercise 58 presents no particular new difficulties with the exception of dimuendo is growing.
Exercise 59
Time: Allegretto in 3/8 (see e.g. previous).
Position: varies between treble clef and bass clef (to the left) and moves to the right in 5 notes of the treble clef (do-sol).
It introduces with this exercise emphasis vibrato: and a > symbol which indicates where to focus, which note to highlight. It will therefore be the beat note on which fall more emphasis marked and net.
Chopin, “Raindrop Prelude” no.15 Op.28
- November 15th, 2011 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Today I want to suggest a piace that make us dreaming. This is the prelude no.15 Op.26 by Chopin, in db major, also called “Raindrop prelude”. Why this name?
Because this piece have a note, the Ab obstinated that is everywhere, like the G sharp, a continuous beat that remember the falling of a raindrop.
in the first part we have the high frequencies of the Ab, that we have to play with great delicacy:
This is a “benevolent Ab” as explain the teacher Modugno in “Raccontare Chopin”, by Corrado Augias. The G sharp instead is called “malevolent G sharp”.
Here the download of the sheet music:
The download is about the whole opera no.28, you have to see the prelude number 15.
He’s a pirate – Pirates of the Caribbean sheet music
- November 10th, 2011 No Comments » Written by: admin
I admit that is a series of films that I do not like, like all the films that have great effect on the audience: Harry Potter, Twilight, etc. .. I’m someone who loves to go against the tide 
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However, every time I heard the music of Pirates of the Caribbean… I remained impressed. “He’s a pirate” may be is the more impressive that I heard since many times.
The music that we are going to download is the one that starts at one minute and 13 seconds. I found a lot of interpreters that can play it very well… like this one…
He’s a talent. Big talent! now… I can’t tell you to play it like hime, because pianists don’t have these sounds, but we can go nearly there.
Here you can download the sheet music.
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Other things
Tone D minor
Time: 6/8
Difficulties there are many doble nots that could be a problem for the right hand, and there are many difficulties by time and rithm. Obviously one time learn the mechanism all will be more easy.
Streaming from the international piano contest “A.Scriabin”
- February 23rd, 2011 No Comments » Written by: admin
From Grosseto (Italy) the international piano contest “A.Scriabin”. From 9 am to 10 pm (Italian time) until Sunday 27th.
Wednesday 23th from 8pm
Cesare Castagnoli – Pianoforte
“Omaggio a Franz Liszt nel bicentenario della nascita (1811- 2011)”
Vallee d’Obermann
Nuages Gris
Funerailles
La lugubre Gondola II
Apres une lecture de Dante
Thursday 24th at 8pm (italian time)
Alvise Pascucci – Pianoforte
R. Schumann Sonata op. 22 n°2
So rasch wie möglich – Andantino – Scherzo – Rondo
S. Rachmaninoff Variazioni su tema di Corelli op. 42
F. Liszt Totentanz
Piano Sheet “Aicha” – Khaled
- December 6th, 2010 1 Comment » Written by: Bill
The tale of Queen of Sheba has been always surrounded by a beautiful shadow of mistery.
We can find it told and narrated in several ways …the expression “Queen of Sheba” is not common to all the peoples: the title “Queen of Sheba” belongs to our christian\ebraic culture, while in Arabia the correct name is Regina Bilquis, and Machada for the ethipians.
The legend tells that Sheba, queen of Axum, feels the wisdom of king Solomon fading out and wants to meet him to prove his famous intelligence and sense of law. The queen of Sheba is fascinated by the beauty of Solomon’s thought. Their union gives birth to Menelik, whose meaning is”Son of the wise man” and that have into his blood the roots of a divine knowledge; he will be the main root of the solomonic family…. i don’t know why but this song, by this famous algerian musician makes me think to this beautiful, dreamful, story…
“Aicha” by Khaled (his music could be defined pop raï, pop, rock, funk. Pop rai,in particular, is a musical genre that melts the algerian traditional music with occidental elements that makes it more commercial and international… )
ENJOY!!!
Hiromi Uehara: Amarone in Jazz-Verona-12 October 2010
- November 25th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
Interview with Hiromi Uehara and with Pepe Gasparini at Amarone in Jazz 2010
Some time ago we went to Verona in order to talk with a young and talented artist: the japanese pianist Hiromi Uehara, that performed a piano solo concert at the Palazzo della Gran Guardia during the festival Amarone in jazz, the only italian live .
We chatted a little with Pepe Gasparini, a musician and the festival’s artistic director, who illustrated during the interview the ends of this cultural project and told us about his musical vision, and the Centro Studi Musicali di Verona ( he is the president) with great enthusiasm. The result of this passion and effort is evident in the amazing good achievements and in festival’s atmosphere. You can listen to what he told by this short video interview.
The climax of the event was, obviously, Hiromi Uehara performance, a young musician whose artistic talent and figure attracted our attention: a genius of the piano, she began to study at the age of 6, attending the Yamaha School of Music al Berklee College of Music di Boston. Today she is 31 and has played with Chik Corea or in a Philharmonic orchestra, important steps for an important musician like she has proved to be. The live performance didn’t deceived. In addition to recent compositions from her last piano solo project “Place to be”, Hiromi played pieces from old LPs and we could notice her extraordinary technical ability and deep empathetic approach to the instrument. We saw her smiling, crying, nodding…as the notes were something coming from her deepest soul.
Visionary, acrobatic, with waterfalls of notes that seem not to stop and, suddendly, move to introspection, Hiromi tells us her emotional world.. a world that is not abstract but comes from the observation of the little things of everyday life: flights , towns, pictures taken randomly , hotels, impressions, a world that her sensitivity transforms into an original and rich musical language.
Here it is the interview with Hiromi… follow her because she will success..
Download the interview Hiromi Uehara
Giulio Cinelli – Michele Guerrini – Paola Parri
Sweet Child O’Mine – Guns N’ Roses (piano sheet))
- November 21st, 2010 1 Comment » Written by: Bill
I was 3 when Guns n’ roses released their first album Appetite for Destruction (1987). Along with songs like Welcome to the jungle and Nightrain, this song was a little masterwork , Sweet Child of Mine. The LP, thanks to this tune was a great success and it still lives in the memory of several generations. And I had the proof of it last night. A cover band, just 3 chords and audience went wild!! I know it would not be easy to find the same identical emotions with the piano.. Slash’s guitar is awesome… but try and taste it!!
The piano sheet is Here
HAVE FUN!!!…
Schubert Fantasia in F minor op.103 for 4 hands piano
- November 14th, 2010 No Comments » Written by: Bill
What do you think? Eh? ? Schubert rules! And you must be quick, precise, taking care of arpeggi and all the technical wonderings that make this piece really amazing!! and difficult!! In fact, to play this composition you will need an help, other 2 good hands!!
You can try thanks to this perfect scores !
Download the fantasia by Schubert op.103 for 4 hands piano HERE! Good Luck!
Life in cartoon motion – Mika (piano sheet)
- November 8th, 2010 1 Comment » Written by: Bill
Relax!. There is no problem. I know well Mika is one of your most unmentionable wishes, the singer you listen to secretly. Your metal friends must not know this aspect of your life!! I will help you… I will find for you all the piano sheets.. Singing something without playing it to the piano is sad stuff..
Listen to it thanks to Deezer and….
Songs’list with the video link:
….download the piano sheet!.
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