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The Role of Artists in Today's Politics READ

Musical harmony can be thought of as an architecture: READ

The story of songs sometimes goes beyond their composers, their place and time of origin. It might look like songs have their own trajectory, or even destiny…. READ

Music is in the listener’s ear. A collaborations through centuries between Bach and Webern on J.S.Bach’s masterpiece “Musical Offering”. READ

Hearing and listening describe a common relationship we have with sound, but the difference is in the way we attend to it. READ

Thoughts on music Genres.

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…Play the music! Inspirational yet enigmatic, the recommendation to NOT PLAY THE NOTES is somewhow typical… READ

Style is everything. But how to develop yours?

Style is a central theme in art and expressivity, for it is the way to reveal yourself… READ

Listening to music is an emotional, intellectual, physical pleasure. One of the ways in which music triggers pleasure is by eliciting our sense of freedom and liberation:… READ

[…] The fixing that a performative artwork needs is inherently different from the fixing of a car engine or solving a math problem: our perspective on the ‘matter’ to fix constantly changes (rightfully so), our intellectual and emotional involvement develop with our exposure and understanding of it, … READ

What is the goal of reading a book, if not accessing and enjoying the meanings conveyed by it? I choose a book to read because I think that specific book has some interest. By the same logic we should not dream of learning how to play, but how to play a piece of music that we like or that has meaning to us. READ

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Q: What was your introduction to music? How old were you, and how did it affect you?

A: I was about 6 or 7 when I started… READ

SERIOUS PRACTICE = LONG HOURS ?

Two things to unpack here: the ‘long hours only’ idea of good practice, and the implication that… READ

PRACTICE MEANS REPETITION ?

We generally believe that boredom and mechanical work are necessary parts of proficiently practicing piano. Nothing could be further from the truth. READ

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT ?

Also presented as ‘you need to practice until it is perfect’. The myth that says music exists only in its perfect form… READ

[…] The more you look the more perspectives emerge. You start considering the tools you used, the precision in timings and proportions, the specific quality… READ

COMPOSITION AS ART OF SPECULATION AND THEOLOGICAL EXPRESSION The circumstances in which the “Musical Offering” was born are probably the most well documented in Bach’s whole career and the composition is… READ (PDF DOWNLOAD)

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