Music has been part of human culture for thousands of years. The oldest instrument to be discovered date back 40,000 years. Music is central to our life because of its unique, positive effects on the individual and the group. You may be learning the piano for fun but read on and you will discover the bonus features …
In the musical language legato - Italian word for tied - indicates that notes are played smoothly and connected.
That is, the player makes a transition from note to note with no intervening silence.
Playing legato does not just mean playing without taking your fingers off the keys between one note and another.
Instead it means finding the relationship between intensity and duration of each sound, so that one hardly notices the decrease …
At the beginning of the nineteenth century the sound of the piano could be modified or enriched in the timbre by using pedal-operated mechanisms that gave the effects of "heavenly voices" and "bassoon", or with machinery equipped with plates and bells, or with a soft mallet that hitting the soundboard caused the bass drum effect.
In 1938 John Cage was commissioned for a short ballet. Not being able for financial reasons …
At the end of 1808, so much snow fell in Vienna that, on the evening of December 22nd, the city seems to have disappeared in a silence that forces to prepare for what is about to happen.
In the Theater an der Wien it freezes, but at the Christmas concert there is not a free place left.
On the piano sits the master himself: Ludwig van Beethoven.
Although he is only 38 years …
Using the sustain pedal brings your performance to new heights as well as making it easier to sustain chords that are more widely spaced. This gives your music a richer, lusher sound. It’s time to get creative with tone and colour by experimenting with …