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 […]
Visualizing performance gains performer’s confidence
Visualizing performance gains performer’s confidence
Performing a piece of music is not easy. In fact, many musicians don’t perform at all because they are so afraid of doing it in front of the audience, especially if the performance is by heart. Mental practice is defined as the rehearsing a physical skill in […]
Sharing your piano skills.
Sharing your piano skills.
WKMT and its Music Festival editions guarantee the perfect performance skills for its students. And about this, the last article talks about.
Sabrina Curpanen, our colleague and Senior piano teacher at the studio, wrote an article to thank all the efforts WKMT makes to provide our piano students with great […]
Learning music analysis
Learning music analysis
Juan Rezzuto has already rendered articles on Sentence and Period. Now it is time to learn about the hybrid themes!
This summary about hybrid themes is based on William Caplin’s Classical forms book. Caplin’s work represents a fantastic summary of forms used in the classical period.
There four basic hybrid themes:
Antecedent – continuation
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Musical Theme type: The period
Musical Theme type: The period
The Period is one of classical music’s more stable theme type. It is characterised by a weak cadence and a returning basic idea.
The phrases involved, called “antecedent” and “consequent” respectively, have a very similar structure. The main difference between each other is harmonical.
The most important elements of […]
Learning piano structurally.
Learning piano structurally.
WKMT proud to introduce a new educational system under the standards of the Scaramuzza technique and the experience we have in teaching students of all levels and ages.
The new course for absolute beginners designed by Gisela Paterno for WKMT is the new platform we will be using for our beginner piano students. An online system easily […]
Understanding musical Themes.
Understanding musical Themes.
To be able to understand musical themes, first of all, we have to know what a musical theme, by its own definition, really is and for that purpose, we only need one simple word called ‘Melody’. The musical theme is the theme, melody that is announced in the first measures. The […]
