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How can I play Für Elise well?
I've always heard that Für Elise is an extremely difficult piece to play well, despite being relatively easy in a technical sense. An added challenge is that it's been extremely over-played (I'm just ...
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Performance practice of Viennese Waltz
Occasionally, when I listen to an orchestra playing a Strauss waltz or something similar, I hear something interesting in the background rhythm of 'boom chik chik' in that the first 'chik' happens ...
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Performance of classic music [duplicate]
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What does a conductor actually do?
I've heard different versions of Johann Strauss II: "Tales from the Vienna Woods", - they were guided by the different conductors?
So ...
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How to avoid accents when singing?
Sometimes, on certain songs, I start to sing in an accent that kind of mimics the original vocals. One song in which I have this problem is Three Days Grace's Let It Die. How can avoid the accent ...
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Is Beethoven's title “Sonata quasi una Fantasia” an oxymoron, and does the title instruct how to perform it?
Beethoven's so-called "Moonlight" Sonata is fully titled "Sonata quasi una Fantasia".
Google translates this literally to "Sonata almost a Fantasy", but I'll assume it means more like "Sonata in the ...
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Have a note outstand in a pianissimo chord (piano)
This is the last chord of Francis Poulenc's Mélancolie for piano. It occurs while a piano D♭ major chord is still resonating in the bass.
How would you have the B♭♭ be perceptible, surprising, and ...
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How should staccatissimo be played?
How should staccatissimo be played on Handel, Beethoven, and Liszt pieces? I have read that it is like staccato only shorter, but it seems like it is used when notes should be staccato and accented. ...
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Shortening a long note: intended or not?
I noticed that in many performances, chords that are expected by the author to have a long duration, are shortened by the performer.
An example is the fourth Ballade of Chopin, where, near the end, ...
