Analysing musical piece supports teaching

Analysing musical piece supports teaching

Analysing musical piece supports teaching

Teaching a piece is much more demanding than mastering it. Before a teacher can explain all the aspects of the piece, they need to understand it by themselves. This rule was followed even by the greatest.

If you cannot explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.

Albert Einstein

Analysing a piece lets us go through the details that we tend to overlook when we just master it. Understanding it deeply means going beyond the performance and investigating the methods a composer used to write the piece. Some of them may seem obvious for a teacher and more advanced student such as the form. But how this affects the other features and how this features stand with the more obvious.

For teachers as well as students, WKMT prepared a good resource to start with which we recommend exploring:

http://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/music-theory–composition-resources