The Natural Piano Blog

The sound of life: the human cell vibrates like a musical instrument. 

The scientific theory developed in 1993 by physicists Gordon Shaw and Frances Rauscher that "Listening to Mozart's music makes you smarter" is still controversial. It is certain, however, that the relationship between sound and melody of the Austrian master increases psychophysical well-being. 

The language of music is very similar to that of life: the rhythm, the harmony, the intention with …

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In the nineteenth century the Gothic style was identified with the Baroque period. 

The Germanic peoples, who had always been subjugated by Greek-Roman culture, rebelled in the eighteenth century, claiming their past: the Gothic. They restore the Gothic buildings, invent the Gothic novel, invent the neoGothic that continues until the threshold of the twentieth century. 

Music also wants to engage with this current, but the problem is that the Gothic composers were …

Since the mid-19th century, the central focus of piano pedagogy has been to turn piano students into performers, not creators. 

Unlike painters, writers, and other creative artists, most musicians are now trained to recreate other people’s art and stop there. 

While people today crop their own photos, make their own movies, design their own websites, and write their own blogs, piano students are rarely encouraged to make music of their own or …

Schubert's tonal networks are related to complex psychological meanings that point towards a no longer classical conception of the world: the world as chaos, not as kosmos. 

The first movement of the Sonata in C major D 840 is very powerful in its radical contrast between strength and sweetness. It’s tonal structure is beyond all norms: the second theme is not only in a minor key, which is already an exceptional …