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Charles Gounod-Part 14 Some of Gounod's favorite sayings include: In art, mere realism is another word for slavish imitation. Labor is neither cruel nor ungrateful. There is no necessity that every man's cup should be the same size. The great point is that each should always be full to the brim. Nowadays the artist is no longer his own master. He belongs to the world at large, he is worse than its target. He is its prey. His own personal a..
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Charles Gounod-Part 13 Many of Gounod's songs have been very popular indeed, and such works as Nazareth, There is A Green Hill Far Away and the Ave Maria, written over the prelude to the first Fugue in the Well Tempered Clavichord of Back, have become extremely popular. Gounod's Autobiographical Reminiscences rank with those of Berlioz in interest, although not nearly so comprehensive. Gounod wrote many monographs upon noted musicians and also a Method for the Cornet...
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Charles Gounod-Part 12 Other operas are: La Nonne Sanglante Le Medicin malgre lui Mireille La Colombe A la Frontiere Le Tribut de Zomora Polyeucte Maitre Pierre Georges Dandin His sacred works many believe will survive his operas. His best known religious compositions are : Solemn Mass in G Masses for Men's voices The Redemption Messe Angeli Custodes Messe Sainte Cecile Mors et..
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Charles Gounod-Part 11 In his autobiography Gounod mentions many friends. Aside from those associated with him in his educational work, he speaks particularly of the French painter, Georges Ingres, director of the Munich Academy at Rome, whose art is said to hold the middle place between the classic and the modern, and in this way runs parallel to the musical art of Gounod. Gounod was also devoted to Berlioz whom he described as the greatest emotional influence of his..
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Charles Gounod-Part 10 Gounod's preference for the organ was quite pronounced and was doubtless due to his churchly tendencies. He had a fine small pipe organ in his home and enjoyed playing upon it, often continuing his playing well into the early hours of the morning. Saint-Saens speaks of his piano-playing, describing him as an agreeable performer, but at the same time relating his difficulty in playing his own scores. Gounod's greatest success as a conductor wa..
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Charles Gounod-Part 9 In 1893 Gounod was engaged upon work with a Requiem. He was going over the score of what he hoped to make his greatest work and describing his purpose to a pupil when he came suddenly upon a particularly effective passage, and, in the excitement of the moment, fell over the score, dead. Like Mozart he had provided his own memorial service. His funeral in Paris indicated the regard of the French state for its men of genius. Preceded by a company of..
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Charles Gounod-Part 8 It was, however, not until 1859 that his great success Faust was first produced. The master had been greatly attached to the poem for many years. Even during the glorious days at the Villa di Medici in Rome we find him studying the Goethe version of the legend. This remarkable opera was first performed in America in 1863. A recent book upon opera estimated that it is sung throughout the world more than any five operas combined. At the Paris Grand..
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Charles Gounod-Part 7 In 1852 Gounod became conductor of the united male singing societies in Paris as well as the vocal schools. Gounod's important dramatic works were produced during the years from 1850 to 1870, after which he devoted his time almost wholly to religious compositions. The dates of the best known works are as follows: Sappho (1851) Ulysses (1852) La Nonne Sanglante (1854) Le Medecin malgre lui (1858) Faust (1859) Philemon et Bauc..
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Charles Gounod-Part 6 His residence in Rome made a profound impression upon him and led him to make a thorough study of the old ecclesiastical music of Palestrina, whom he always compared with Michelangelo. Of them he said, Both have the same simplicity, even humility of manner; the same seeming indifference to effect, the same scorn for methods of education. There is nothing artificial or mechanical about them. The soul wrapped in ecstatic contemplation of a hig..
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Charles Gounod-Part 5 If I have worked any good during my life, by word or deed, I owe it to my mother and to her I give the praise. She sleeps beneath a stone as simple as her blameless life had been. May this tribute from the son she loved so tenderly form a more imperishable crown than the wreaths of fading immortelles he laid upon her grave, and clothe her memory with a halo of reverence and respect he fain would have endure long after he himself is dead and..
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Charles Gounod-Part 4 We had dined early that evening as we had no reserved seats (this would have been far too costly), and we had to be at the opera house before the doors were opened, with the crowd of people who waited on the chance of finding places untaken in the pit. Even this was a terrible expense for my mother as the seats cost three francs and seventy-five centimes each (about seventy-five cents). It was bitterly cold; for two mortal hours did U..
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Charles Gounod-Part 3 At the time of the master's birth Gounod's parents resided in a modest little house in the section of Paris near the venerable Abbey of St. Germain des Pres. The artist father and musician mother fighting valiantly against commercialism and mediocrity upon one side and poverty upon the other had a very happy home nevertheless. The father's artistic conscience was so highly developed that he would work with extravagant disregard for the value of hi..
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Charles Gounod-Part 2 Humanity yet lingers, it would seem, under the grim shadows of chaos, amidst the monstrosities of the iron age; and instead of driving their weapons into the earth to benefit their fellow creatures, men plunge them into each other's hearts to decide the ownership of the actual soil. Barbarians! Savages! Gounod's father, Francois Louis Gounod was born in 1758 and did not marry until he was forty-seven years old. He died when his son Ch..
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Charles Gounod-Part 1 1818-1893 It is not labor that kills. It is sterility. To be fruitful is to be young and full of life. The calamitous power of Napoleon Bonaparte came to an inevitable end with the mad flight of the French troops from Waterloo, June 18, 1815. The great devastator had for years drained France of its strongest and healthiest men to gratify his ambition for dominion and his appetite for military success. Singularly enough many of..
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Benjamin Godard Godard was born August 18, 1849, at Paris, and died at Cannes, January 10, 1895. He studied at the Paris Conservatoire under Reber (harmony) and Vieuxtemps (violin). He accompanied Vieuxtemps twice to Germany, and also devoted himself to chamber music. He composed music with great facility, and, indeed, his work suffers at times from a lack of careful revision. Nevertheless he gradually obtained recognition. In 1876 his concerto Romantique was performe..
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Christoph Willibald (Ritter Von) Gluck Gluck was born July 2, 1714, at Weidenwang, in the Upper Palatinate, on the estate of Prince Lobkowitz, and died in Vienna, November 15, 1787. He learnt his first lessons, musical and otherwise, at the Jesuit school of Kommatau. In 1732 he went to Prague and studied under Czernohorsky. In Vienna, 1736, he met Prince Melza at the Lobkowitz residence, who took him to Milan, where he studied further under Sammartini. At this period..
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Francois Auguste Gevaert Gevaert was born at Huysse, near Oudenarde, July 31, 1828, and died at Brussels, December 24, 1908. His father was a baker, and he was intended for the same profession, but better councils prevailed and he was permitted to study music. He was sent in 1841 to the Convervatory at Ghent, where he studied under Sommere and Mengal. He was then appointed organist of the Jesuit's church. His compositions soon attracted attention, and he eventually..
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Georges Bizet Born at Paris, October 25, 1838, Bizet early showed signs of extraordinary ability. He entered the Paris Conservatoire in 1848, where he remained until 1857, studying piano with Marmontel, organ with Benoist, harmony with Zimmermann, and composition with Halevy, whose daughter he married in 1869. He won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1857, and proceeded to Italy. At intervals he sent back examples of his work in composition of an elaborate natu..
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John Field-Part 10 An Unfortunate End In the spring and summer of 1833 Field astonished various European centers, including Brussels, Toulouse, Marseilles and Lyons, frequently receiving triple recalls. On September 30 his grand concert at Geneva was a huge success, and a similar triumph was accorded him at Milan in November and December. After his appearance at Florence in 1834 he proceeded to Naples, where he became seriously ill and had to be operated on for fistul..
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John Field-Part 9 The report of the famous John Field's death at the beginning of the year is unfounded. This great virtuoso on the forte-piano still lives; and, if his love of retirement can be conquered, Europe need not yet renounce the expectation of being gratified by hearing him, but it is with difficultly he can resolve on any exhibition of his powers. Towards the close of the year 1831 Field accepted the invitation of the Philharmonic Society of L..
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John Field-Part 8 Glinka a Pupil of Field Between the years 1815 and 1819 Field gave numerous concerts in St. Petersburg, and his reputation as a piano teacher was rapidly growing. Among his pupils of this period were Glinka and Mayer - both of whom wrote effusively of their master, both as a virtuoso and a teacher. During this period he published his Fourth, Fifth and Sixth Nocturnes, as well as five Piano Concertos, an Orchestral Concerto, a Quintet, two Divertissem..
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John Field-Part 7 From 1804 to 1807 Field's services both as a virtuoso and as a teacher were in much request; and he gave numerous concerts which proved highly remunerative. Alas! like so many other artists, he was improvident and lived like a true Bohemian - a life diversified with various love affairs. He soon acquired a mastery of French, German and Russian, and was in high favor in the most select circles. He got petted so much that he became indolent and frivolou..
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John Field-Part 6 The promised visit to Paris of Clementi and his pupil had to be delayed owing to business engagements, and, in the meantime, Clementi published Field's Three Sonatas (in A, E-flat and C minor), dedicated to his master. At length - in the early part of August, 1802 - the two pianists set forth for the French capital. Field's playing of Bach's Fugues and of pieces by Handel and Clementi took Paris by storm, and he obtained a similar triumph at Vienna an..
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John Field-Part 5 On February 7, 1799, at a performance for the benefit of Pinto the younger at the King's Theatre in the Haymarket, Master Field played his own concerto for the grand forte piano. It may be well to note that Field was kept for several years by Clementi as a hack for showing his pianos, and one can well imagine the drudgery experienced by such a rising genius, compelled to strum away daily for the delectation of would be purchase..
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John Field-Part 4 Almost immediately his father apprenticed the boy to Muzio Clementi, who at once recognized Field's genius. The fact of Field pere giving a fee of a hundred guineas to Clementi for the apprenticeship of his son represents a heavy sacrifice, and is distinctly to the credit of Robert Field. As early as 1794 Clementi announced the young Irish lad as his pupil, and we find Field performing a sonata of Clementi at Barthelemon's concert. The fiction of..
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John Field-Part 3 Field's debut was at Signor Giordani's First Spiritual Concert at the Rotunda, Dublin, on Saturday, March 24, 1792, the two attractions being Madame Gautherot (the famous lady violinist) and Master Field. The advertisements announced Field as a child of eight. This was merely a pious fraud (not yet unknown in advertising circles), as the boy was close on ten years old; but it is probably that he only looked about eight. The pie..
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John Field-Part 2 A Busy Childhood At the age of eight years John Field was a good pianist, his studies having been supervised in true Solomon-like fashion by his father and grandfather and neither of them spared the rod. Indeed, it is alleged that he ran away from home in 1790 in order to avoid the thrashings, but this lacks confirmation. One thing is certain, that at the close of the year 1790 (or early 1791) the precocious child was sent to Tommaso Giordani to rece..
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John Field-Part 1 Inasmuch as the year 1914 was the centenary of the nocturne (invented by an Irish composer, John Field), it may be of interest to give a short biography of that remarkable virtuoso, especially as no English memoir is as yet accessible. There are monographs in French, Italian, German and Russian, while the latest memoir is also in German, and was presented as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the University of Leipzig by Heinrich De..
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Gabriel Urbain Faure Faure was born at pamiers (Ariege), France, May 13, 1845. He studied at Paris with Niedermayer, and also under Deitsche and Saint-Saens. On leaving school, he became organist at a church in Rennes, but in 1870 he returned to Paris. After holding various positions as organist in the French capital he became maitre de Chapelle, and, later, organist at the Madeleine. In 1896 he was appointed professor of composition at the Conservatoire, and in Jun..
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Sir Edward Elgar Elgar was born at Broadheath, near Worcester, England, June 2, 1857. His father was an organist, and also kept a music store in Worcester. Elgar's training was almost entirely along self help lines. He played the organ a little, studied the violin, and several wind instruments, helped at choral societies, conducted a band at a lunatic asylum, and wrote music for every combination of instruments he could think of. He once wrote a whole symphony in th..
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Ernst von Dohnanyi Dohnanyi was born at Pressburg, Hungary, July 27, 1877. He first studied music with his father, a professor of mathematics in the gymnasium, but afterwards became a pupil in pianoforte and composition with Carl Forstner, organist of Pressburg Cathedra. In 1894 he became a pupil of Stephan Thoman for piano and of Hans Koessler for composition. He completed some elaborate chamber music for strings, and in 1897 his symphony in F was rewarded the King..
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Claude Debussy-Part 9 What enchanting vision, wonderfully expressed by Debussy by a precipitate descending series of seventh chords built on the whole tone scale. In the limited space allotted to these articles I can only mention briefly some of the other works of Debussy which have become popular, as, for instance, his Sting Quartet, his pianoforte pieces: Jardin sous la pluie, Reflets d'eau, Deux Arabesques, and the song Ariette oubliee, Le Flute de Pan, built..
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Claude Debussy-Part 8 Grieg's music gives him the charming and bizarre sensation of eating a pink bonbon stuffed with snow. Of Beethoven he writes: The right lesson to be learnt from him is not to hold fast to ancient formulas. Neither is it necessary to follow in the tracks of his early footsteps. But it is of greater importance to look out of the open window to the free sky beyond. The bulk of Debussy's works is not very large, owing also to the fact th..
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Claude Debussy-Part 7 On another occasion he writes: From Bach's works a somewhat striking analogy forces itself on the mind. Bach is the Graal and Wagner Klingsor (the evil magician is Parsifal) who would destroy the Graal and usurp the homage given to it. Bach exercises a sovereign influence in music, and in his goodness and might he has willed that we should ever gain fresh knowledge from the noble lessons he has left us, and thus his disinterested love perpet..
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Claude Debussy-Part 6 His Sound Knowledge His early training was conventional and academic, and seemingly in no way conducive to the independent ideas he has formulated for himself. Born at St. Germain-en_Laye, 1862, he began his studies at that most conservative institution, the Paris Conservatoire. He obtained medals for solfege and piano playing, and finally, 1884, the Grand Prix de Rome with his cantata L'enfant Prodigue. He said that his music court le risq..
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Claude Debussy-Part 5 It must be owned that Debussy was not only eccentric in his music, but also in private life. He was unapproachable to strangers; he observed the utmost reticence regarding the intimate details of his career and existence; he sheltered himself from publicity and advertisement. He was of the opinion that to seers of visions a certain loneliness is inevitable. L'ame d'autrui, he said, est une foret obscure ou it faut mar..
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Claude Debussy-Part 4 The same we can notice in life. One sees at times in the country some completely unadorned peasant girl, with her hair just divided in the middle after the old fashion, with an out-of-date but immaculate dress; and he finds her much more charming than if she were clad with expensive silks and laces. I meet often in these mountains of the Berkshire, where I spend my summer, a young girl wearing a framerette suit with pants, driving an old horse and..
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Claude Debussy-Part 3 One finds of course a perfect concordance between the ideals of Debussy and the means chosen by him to reach them, and that is what interests us most. How to arrive? We have here a nature which strives to free itself from all scholastic, academic restraints. As a true artist he shams repetition, plagiarism, not only the outlines of his melodies by also in the combination of chords, in rhythm, in the accepted forms of composition. A rad..
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Claude Debussy-Part 2 He recognized no boundaries whatsoever between the different keys; the same tonality is seldom maintained beyond a single measure. He uses key signatures but he could as well dispense with them, like some of the ultra-modernists (for instance, the Viennese Schonberg). Somebody said that Debussy puts them in place yielding only to an amiable and indulgent prejudice. I prefer, said Debussy, to hear few notes of an Egyptian shep..
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Claude Debussy-Part 1 A young composer once submitted to Rossini a new work of his requesting him to give an opinion on its merits. The master after having perused the composition remarked in his usual sarcastic way: I notice in your work much which is beautiful and much which is new, bit I am sorry to say the beautiful is not new and the new is not beautiful. With these words Rossini gives to all musicians a wonderful guide for their artistic pursuits...
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Frank Damrosch Frank Damrosch was born in Breslau, June 22, 1859. He came to America with his father, Dr. Leopold Damrosch, in 1871, having already studied music under Purchner and Vogt. He studied in New York under von Inten and his father. He also studied in Europe under Moszkowski. He originally intended to adopt a business career, and to that end went to Denver, Colorado, but the musical impulse proved too strong, and in 1884 he was an organist, conductor of the..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 6 The Road To Mastery The road to mastery in musical composition is a long one. To go through it worthily means to possess an intellect of no mean order. The requirements in the way of concentration, imagination and unflagging doing, are fully equal to those made by the higher mathematics. But taken early and carried along sensibly, the boy of gifts, of whom alone we write, learns his harmony in two or three years' time, learns to handle chords, to..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 5 The American youth, when he comes to study, comes late, generally too late. His brain cells are no longer in their early plasticity and impressibility. He learns; but it takes him long to learn, longer than it would have taken some years earlier, because the channels of thought are now formed slowly. When he should be writing in the larger forms, handling an orchestra, dealing in its many colored tones, he is painfully and slowly wrestling with th..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 4 American parents cannot understand, for instance, what makes a certain child so queer. With no musical past of their own to speak of, unacquainted with the conditions that would otherwise render them knowing and discerning, they gaze on a boy who is distracted and absent, poor in his school, ever scribbling tunes, moody, irritable, as a conundrum. Of the creative impulse that is striving within him and that finds perhaps a vent in arra..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 3 Such a boy need be no over-strung delicate child. History shows us quite the reverse. History shows us that these acquirements, having been won little by little, have come to him naturally and without any extraordinary effort. In his seventeenth year, or in his eighteenth, the hand of this youth is penning symphonies. Postpone the time of beginning two years or so - to eleven or twelve - and the outcome is about the same. The name of Richard Strau..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 2 Musical Talents Taken in Time That this is so suggests a fault somewhere in our scheme of education, or a possible misuse of opportunity, or a failure to apprehend the needs of that youth whose peculiar gifts fit him for musical composition. At any rate, in comparing the musical training of the your in America with that of the youth abroad, the first thing that appeals to one is the fact that the boy abroad is ready to finish his education when th..
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Benjamin Cutter-Part 1 On would be American Composers It was the writer's privilege some years ago to converse with a past master in the art of musical instruction as the students thronged through the corridors of a great school of music. A chance remark became, as is often the case, a germ for thought; to which this present paper owes its writing. Who knows but some Schubert is now walking this corridor! . This idea fastened itself then in th..
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Cecile Chaminade Chaminade was born at Paris, August 8, 1861. She studied with Le Couppey, Savart, Marsick and Godard. Her first experiments in composition took place in very early days, and in her eighth year she played some of her sacred music to Bizet, the composer of Carmen, who was much impressed with her talents. She gave her first concert when she was eighteen, and from that time on her work as a composer has gained steadily in favor, until at the present tim..
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George W. Chadwick Born November 13, 1854 Best known works: Comic opera, Tabasco, lyric drama, Judith, Symphonies, overtures, chamber music, anthems, and many beautiful songs including Allah. The Etude Magazine November 1912 [ Piano Chords ] [ Piano Playing ] [ Gospel Music ] [ Play Piano ] [ Keyboard Chord Chart ] [ Beginning Piano ] [ Video Piano Lessons ] [&nb..
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Ferruccio Benvenuto Busoni Busoni was born at Empoli, near Florence, April 1, 1866. His father was a clarinet player, and his mother (Anne Weiss) gave him his first piano lessons. He made his first public appearance at the age of nine in Vienna, and afterwards studied there with Hans Scmitt and in Graz with Remy. He ws so successful at the age of 17 that a medal was struck in his honor by the city of Florence, and he was elected a member of the Academia Filamonica at..
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Willy Burmester Burmester was born March 16, 1869, at Hamburg. He was a pupil of Dr. Joachim in Berlin, with whom he studied for many years. In 1885, however, he seceded from the Joachim school, and commenced to develop his technic with a view to achieving virtuosity rather than a classic purity of style. He is a well-developed artist, however, and his taste is broad enough to include all schools of composition in his repertoire. His is at his best, nevertheless, as..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 13 A Sealed Book Resuming, we may say that to the ordinary amateur Brahms is a sealed book. Not only can he not enjoy it, but is is apt to repel him. The reasons are that his is not making any concession to popularity which, indeed, he always despised; then there is a prevalent somberness, which reveals at every moment the North German; also, a lack of spontaneity. We find often the craftsman over shadowing the artist. In his works the feelings fo..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 12 Brahms built his music laboriously. It was his custom to keep his work in manuscript for some time and usually to hear one or two performances of it before allowing it to appear in print. He carried self criticism to the extent of rewriting works which had already been published. To Georg Henschel he said once, One ought never to forget that by actually perfecting one piece one gains and learns more than by commencing or half finishing a d..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 11 Georg Henschel, the singer, was much in contact with Brahms and did much in the way of introducing his works. On one occasion when he and Brahms arrived at a certain town they were given a double bedroom and Henschel anticipated the night with some alarm. As soon as the light was out Brahms was asleep and snoring loudly. Henschel, knowing that he would not sleep, went off to the porter and managed to secure another room. When the friends met in..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 10 His Season His sarcasm was widely known. To a young composer who showed him a manuscript he said: My dear, you will never become a Beethoven, to which, however, he received the unexpected reply; My dear master, none of us ever will. One day as a friend came to tell him that admirers of Raff were getting up a subscription to erect a monument to his memory, he exclaimed, Let them make haste, don't delay a moment, or..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 9 Thereupon Brahms opened his cigarette case again and said with a smile of satisfaction: Then give me back the good cigarette; for your purpose a common one of the Austrian Tabackregie will do just as well! Brahms never married. Although frequently on terms of intimacy with ladies, he does not appear to have got further than occasionally remarking to a friend; Such a girl would make me happy. What he missed in this way, ho..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 8 Rude But Amiable In spite of his reputation as a rude fellow, I found Brahms comparatively amiable. He soon honored me with his autograph, the first measures of his famous song Oh versenk. Brahms was an inveterate smoker. He loved a good weed, but did not turn up his nose at a bad one. Erich Wolff, the composer, used to tell a story about Brahms' cigarettes. He had only just emerged from the Academy of Music at Vienna when he ventured to submit..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 7 In early life Brahms was slim and slight of build. As the years passed he took on weight rapidly. He was rather short, had sandy colored hair, and was clean shaven. By the time he was fifty he looked stout, shaggy and unkempt. Moreover, a thick beard hid much of his face. Though neat and tidy in his youth, he would later wear alpaca rather than broadcloth. An old shawl was the garment he preferred. His aversion to visiting England seems partly to..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 6 Great Master Works His German Requiem was given in 1868 in the Cathedral at Bremen, and was attended by many representative musicians. The event of the year 1876 was the production of his Symphony Op. 68 in C Minor at Carlsruhe. The critics of the day were very divergent in their views; some could make neither head nor tail of it, while others lauded it to the skies. A second symphony, Op. 73, in D, followed after a short time. Another great wo..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 5 In 1859 Brahms played his new pianoforte concerto at Hanover, Joachim being the conductor, and later at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig; but he soon realized that his life work lay more in the direction of creation than of execution. Great publishing firms accepted his works for publication. Clara Schumann continued her propaganda of Brahm's works and performed in Hamburg his Variations on a Theme of Handel. The charm of Vienna attracted him at first o..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 4 Schumann's Death The year 1854 brought much sadness. Schumann was overtaken by the mental malady which clouded his few remaining years. He attempted to throw himself into the Rhine, but was rescued and taken to an asylum, where he lingered on until 1856. This tragedy affected Brahms very deeply. He rushed off to Dusseldorf to offer his sympathies to the poor wife and in common with other friends set himself to do all that he could to h..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 3 The most important outcome of this tour was a meeting with the great violinist Joachim, and from that date began their lifelong friendship. Joachim was impressed with the young man and wrote to several friends prophesying a great future for him. Moreover, he gave him an introduction to Schumann, who was then at Dusseldorf. Schumann heard Brahms play his Sonata in C Major and many of his other pieces, and both he and his wife expressed t..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 2 First Appearance as a Pianist He made his first public appearance as a pianist when he was fourteen at a concert of which the program included his own variations upon a Volkslied. Brahms seems to have had a decided preference for the variation. Six of his works - his Opus 9, Variations on a Theme by Schumann; Op. 21 No. 1, Variations on an Original Theme; Op. 21, No. 2, Variations on a Hungarian Theme; Op. 23, Variations on a Theme by S..
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Johannes Brahms-Part 1 Among the artists whose merits have been passionately disputed, not only by the public at large, but also by other famous musicians, is certainly Johannes Brahms. With Brahms it is not as with Wagner a question of agreeing or disagreeing with his principles or his daring innovations, but simply a liking or disliking of his music. Someone named him the last of the classics or, like Bulow, made him a member of the Three B's Tri..
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Georges Bizet-Part 12 Beautiful thoughts, fitly expressed! Resuming we find in Bizet's life a fervent love of art manifesting itself from earliest childhood. Severe studies completed under the leadership of great masters like Marmontel, Zimmermann, Halevy and Gounod. His teachings could be summarized as follows: Strive to become a great pianist and learn the true expression, the right phrasing. Hum and sing passages and melodies with deep feeling. Try to suggest on th..
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Georges Bizet-Part 11 Further Galabert writes: One knows generally Bizet only as the author of Arlesienne and Carmen; but that should not prevent us from appreciating the beauties of the Pecheurs de peries, of the Jolie fille de Parth, Diamileh, the dramatic overture Patrie, his songs Adieux de Photesse Arabe, Vous ne Priez Pas, Ma vie a Son Secret, his Funeral March for piano. Bizet was an eclectic, non-secretarian, and opposed to prejudi..
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Georges Bizet-Part 10 An Eminent Pianist As has already been mentioned, Bizet was an eminent pianist. Edmond Galabert in his introduction to Bizet's Lettres a un ami, relates that Bizet advised him to seriously devote himself to the piano, to watch, to criticise himself, to repeat difficult passages until the touch attained the desired quality, to use the pedal with the greatest discretion and exactness. He obtained marvelous effects through the simultaneous use of bot..
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Georges Bizet-Part 9 I would have strangled her, says Jose. He is admitted into the band of Dancaire, to which Carmen was since long time affiliated. Then begins the life of a bandit. He would like to become again an honest man and carry with him Carmen to America, but she refuses; she has enough of him; she hates him; she throws away the ring he gave her. Jose flushed with rage strikes her once, twice - he kills her. Meilhac and Halevy, the authors of the l..
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Georges Bizet-Part 8 The libretto is written after the famous novel of Prosper Merimee, which portrays the bizarre customs of the gypsies. Of course, Merimee does not hesitate to introduce us to the most abject collections of crooks and bandits; but who would accuse of immorality the fascinating writer? Carmen is the history of the bandit Don Jose Navarro, whom the author of the novel met in the mountains of the Sierra. Touched by the sympathy this stranger had shown to..
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Georges Bizet-Part 7 Returned home Bizet found himself in the usual condition of all young musicians, trying to meet the cost of living through piano lessons, piano transcriptions, orchestrating dance music and waiting for an opportunity. This opportunity presented itself quite unexpectedly. Count Walewsky, minister of fine arts, preparing to retire from his office, made a gift of 100,000 francs to the Theatre Lyric. Bizet was the first to benefit by the ministerial gen..
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Georges Bizet-Part 6 A Humiliating Letter In 1859 young Bizet was on his way to Naples to bring to Mercadante the letter of Carafa. Curious to see the contents of the missive, he opened it and - oh disillusion! - he read, Il giovae che ti ci mettera - questa lettera ha fatto ottimi studii. Ha avato la prima ricompensa del nostro conservatorio, Ma secondo la mia debole opinione non sara mai un compositore teatrale, perche non ha estro per un.... (here an untr..
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Georges Bizet-Part 5 He soon acquired great reputation as a wonderful reader. Nobody, indeed, understood as he did how to arrange at sight for piano the most intricate orchestra scores. Berlioz was one of the first to recognize the exceptional talent of the young artist. After the death of Zimmermann, Bizet entered the composition classes of Halevy. The author of La Juive received him with open arms and declared that he was already fit to take part at the contest for t..
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Georges Bizet-Part 4 The child was admitted to the piano classes of Mermontel, the renowned teacher of Paladilhe, Duvernoy, Wieniawsky and Dubois. Six months later he won the first prize for solfege. It was then that he was introduced to the old Professor Zimmerman, who for a long time had headed the courses of counterpoint and fugue; and, although Zimmerman had decided to retire from teaching, he made an exception in favor of young Bizet, and took him as his pupil in c..
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Georges Bizet-Part 3 One day as he made him sing a lesson of solfege full of difficulty intervals, he was impressed by the exactness with which he hit the right notes. He raised his eyes and noticed that the young reader was looking away from the open book. The child, unaware of the surveillance of his teacher, continued to sing without looking at the notes. He had often heard that lesson through the door and had learned it by heart. The father resolved to send him to t..
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Georges Bizet-Part 2 They approve of Humperdinck, whose Hansel and Gretel, fairy opera, hardly justifies the overburdened, Wagnerian instrumentation. Somebody said that he shot with cannons at sparrows. They would perhaps reproach Bizet with shooting at lions with children's pistols in his tragic opera Carmen. It is impossible to please everybody. Fortunately, there are very few musicians whose short sightedness prevents them from appreciating..
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Georges Bizet-Part 1 Bizet was of the opinion that one should combat the prejudice that only non-artists can judge impartially a work of art. He did not realize that he himself had the most to suffer from the adverse criticism of his fellow musicians. Although today the recognition of Bizet's genius is almost universal, there prevails still in certain musical quarters the tendency to classify him among the light opera composers; and I have heard a well known modernist..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 12 Adelina Patti requested him to write something in her album. He wrote: Oportet pati (one must suffer!) and as she asked him what it meant, he answered it was kitchen Latin and meant: Apportez le pate (bring on the pie! ) When his opera The Trojans was first produced a friend came to him confidentially and told him. Old fellow, do something to please me - suppress 'Mercury.' Those wings on his head and his heels are really comic..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 11 A Brilliant Writer Berlioz was also a brilliant and witty critic and feuilletoniste. He was for many years music critic of the Journal des Debats, and he left some entertaining writing in his Grotesques de le musique, Voyage musical and Soirees de lOrchestre; but he always held in abhorrence his duties as a critic. I hate circumlocution, diplomacy, trimming and all half measures and concessions, he said. Why can I not remember th..
Music Of The Great Composers -- Hector Berlioz
Hector Berlioz-Part 10 At least he had the satisfaction that some of his illustrious fellow artists championed him with word and deed, and he got fresh courage to fight on. No, a thousand times, no! - he writes - no man living has a right to try and destroy the individuality of another, to force him to adopt a style not his own, and to give his natural point of view. If a man is commonplace let him remain so; if he be great - a choice spirit set above..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 9 Mendelssohn was still more severe in his judgment of Berlioz. He is a perfect caricature, without one spark of talent, he wrote in one of his letters. Peculiarly enough, Berlioz himself felt very keenly extravagance and exaggeration in the music of other composers. Of Wagner's Tannhauser he wrote: Wagner is turning singers into goats . . . he is decidedly mad; he will die of apoplexy after all. Liszt, who was expected,..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 8 Berlioz' Critics The daring innovator aroused also the wrath of the conservative musicians like Boieldieu (the author of the opera La Dame Blanche ) and Halevy (the composer of La Juive ). In his third attempt to win the Prix de Rome Berlioz had composed a cantata, Cleopatra Boieldieu, who was one of the judges, said to Berlioz: But, my dear boy, how could I possibly approve it? I who like nice, gentle music..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 7 As I remarked in the course of this article, most of Berlioz's works betray a preference for the gigantic - for the prodigious. Whoever expected to meet in the music of his last opera, The Trojans, those extravagances which shock us so often in his symphonies, would be, however, disappointed. I witnessed a performance of Les Trojens in Carlsruhe under Mottl's direction, and I was surprised to find a very tame Berlioz. The opera is performed in two..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 6 His Tremendous Orchestral Effects I have quoted in detail the program of this work, as it gives a characteristic of Berlioz' individuality. His fantasy and his other music have something morbid and chaotic, which borders on insanity. Even the extravagant orchestral masses he uses in his works are a symptom of his abnormality. In his smaller works he usually writes for an orchestra of more than usual size, using by preference four bassoons instead o..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 5 Hello, Crispino! what brings you here? To tell the truth, I've got no money. You have no money? What business is that of mine, oh, mightiest of scamps? I am no scamp. If you call me a scamp because I have no money you are right, but if it is because I was two years at Civita Vecchia you are wrong. I wasn't sent to the galleys for stealing, but just for good honest shots at strangers in the mountains. ..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 4 What fiber of a man! Even adverse criticism he considered as a part of success. But his hope that Miss Smithson would hear of him was not fulfilled. She was not present. This passion will be my death; how often all the English papers ring with her praises; I am unknown. When I have written something great, something stupendous, I must go to London to have it performed. Oh, for success! success under her very eyes! Berlioz in Rome A pa..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 3 But here new obstacles grew in his way. The director of the Conservatoire, Cherubini, had issued an edict that men and women were to enter the building from opposite sides. Berlioz did not conform to the order and presented himself at the wrong door and brushing aside the servant who tried to stop him made himself at home in the library. Cherubini became furious and forbade Berlioz to use the library. Things were smoothed down afterwards, but from..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 2 They wanted him to study medicine; they boy, on the contrary, showed interest only for music, for instruments. He found a flageolet in a neglected drawer and made such dire noises that his father in self defense taught him to play. After that he discovered a flute and later a guitar - a peculiar omen for the future master of modern instrumentation. A Strong Musical Inclination Dr. Berlioz observed those symptoms with growing concern. When the time was drawing..
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Hector Berlioz-Part 1 Which power raises man the higher? Love or music? It is a great question. It seems to me that love alone cannot give an idea of music, but music can give an idea of love - why separate them? They are the twin wings of the soul. So once declared Hector Berlioz, and his life, all permeated with love and music, was certainly a demonstration of that sentence. To striving, ambitious musicians there cannot be a more inspiring figure than..
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Charles Auguste de Beriot De Beriot was born in Louvain, Belgium, February 20, 1802, and died at Louvain, April 8, 1870. He studied the violin under his guardian, Tiby, but in his nineteenth year he went to Paris, and, though he did not study with Viotti and Baillot, as reported, his work was supervised by them. He then went on tour, meeting with great success in London, Paris and the great music centers of Europe. In 1836 he married Maria Malibran. After her death,..
Vincenzo Bellini
Vincenzo Bellini November 1, 1801 - 1835 Best known works: Sonnambula, Norma and I Puritani. His works are very melodious and his arias will long be popular with coloratura sopranos. The Etude Magazine November 1912 [ Piano Chords ] [ Piano Playing ] [ Gospel Music ] [ Play Piano ] [ Keyboard Chord Chart ] [ [ Vide..
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Beethoven-Part 4 by Arthur S. Garbett He was a fine teacher, but hated teaching, often ignoring the pupils he accepted. Carl Czerny, who received a few irregular lessons from him, says he insisted on scale playing, and used Emanuel Bach's instruction book. for young Gerhard von Breuning, in 1826, he recommended Clementi's studies. He taught a legato touch, making more frequent use of the thumb than was common at that time. His desire was to counteract the stacca..
Beethoven Part 3
Beethoven-Part 3 by Arthur S. Garbett Frugal by habit, his meals were simple. He drank a cup of coffee on rising, carefully counting out sixty beans as the proper quantity. for dinner he preferred something light - a bit of fish or macaroni and cheese. On Fridays he would sometimes invite friends to eat Schill with him - a haddock-like fish from the Danube. He occasionally drank wine, preferring a variety produced from the heights around Buda. A pipe and..
Beethoven part
Beethoven-Part 2 by Arthur S. Garbett Before deafness interfered he was sociably included, and his genius as a pianist, and especially his gift of improvisation, made him welcome in princely houses, where otherwise his bluff speech and open rudeness might have denied him admittance. As silence closed about him, however, he locked his doors to all save his intimates, and even to them at times. Schindler, Ries, Moscheles, Carl Czerny, Lobkowitz, Rasoumowsky, and other p..
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Beethoven-Part 1 by Arthur S. Garbett Beethoven suffered a threefold loneliness; he was unmarried; he was deaf; he was a genius. The first deprived him of the loving sympathy he so much needed; the second, of social intercourse and of the music that was the breath of his life; and the third set him apart from all mankind. Beethoven had many friends. They were kind to him and helped him in his troubles, provided him with financial assistance; and yet none was such a co..
Harold Bauer, pianist
Harold Bauer, pianist Harold Bauer, who has won such distinction as a pianist, was originally intended to be a violinist. His father was a German violinist and his mother an English woman. Harold Bauer was born in London, April 28, 1873, and early took up the study of the violin under the direction of his father and Adolf Pollitzer. He made his debut as a violinist in London in 1883, and for nine years toured England. In 1892, however, he went to Paris and studied the pianof..
Albani
Mme. Albani Albani was born at Chambly, near Montreal, Canada, November 1, 1850, where she received her first instruction in singing at a convent. In 1864 her family removed to Albany, N.Y., where her singing in the cathedral attracted attention. On the advice of the Catholic Bishop, her father took her to Paris, where she studied under Duprez. It was Lamperti, of Milan, however, whose instruction was of most value to her. She continued under his guidance until she made her..
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Piano Lessons - why you need piano lessons that use piano chords
Piano Lessons: Why you need to know Piano Chords If you are going to learn to play the piano you need the best piano lessons possible. Of course you can take piano lessons from music stores and piano teachers, but if you do, make sure that they teach chord piano -- the style of piano playing that uses piano chords. This is SO important! Make SURE that you learn piano chords when you take piano lessons! &n..
Chord Detective
How To Become a Chord Detective and see through all the notes into the order behind the written music so you can play this song using chords instead of as is . SUPER BONUS: Order Today and receive FREE BIG book of 74 famous songs to practice your see-through eyes on... The complete Chord Detective Course is a step-by-step guide that shows you the inside secrets, tips, and..
Piano tabs -- chord symbols
Piano Tabs: Shorthand Chord Symbols Piano tabs are like shorthand: instead of using written music notation, symbols are used instead to indicate what chords are being used (or in primitive cases, what melody notes are being used). Piano tabs have been used forever by musicians in one form or another. Bach used them -- but then they were called figured bass . They looked something like this: &..
Chords for both hands piano
Chords for both hands piano playing with your right and left! Music is everywhere. You might enjoy humming, or whistling or even singing. If you want to learn how to play the piano, you can learn with ease with the chords for both hands piano. Using the chords for both hands piano is easy and fun. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or a particularly great at music. You do not have to sing, or dance or have any particular affinity to music. If you like music and w..
Chords -- free piano sheet music
Chord free piano sheet music it is possible... Music is everywhere. You might enjoy humming, or whistling or even singing. If you want to learn how to play the piano, you can learn with ease with the chord free piano sheet music. Using the chord free piano sheet music is easy and fun. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or a particularly great at music. You do not have to sing, or dance or have any particular affinity to music. If you like music and want to learn..
Chords - free piano songs
Chord free piano songs play the piano without a struggle Music is everywhere. You might enjoy humming, or whistling or even singing. If you want to learn how to play the piano, you can learn with ease with the learn chords - free piano songs. Using the learn chord free piano song is easy and fun. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or a particularly great at music. You do not have to sing, or dance or have any particular affinity to music. If you like music and wan..
Chord key piano -- the keys to piano playing
Chord key piano playing it up for friends and family
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Chord keyboard piano
Chord keyboard piano program playing for friends and family
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Chord piano music lessons
Chord piano music lessons the easy way to play piano music Chord piano music lessons can be easy and fun, with Play pianos program. Chord piano music lessons do not have to take a huge amount of your time or your concentration. People think that playing the piano is a difficult thing to learn. All those notes and beats, the sheet music looks like a different language. Music is apart of our lives, it is everywhere. If you hum or sing, or even whistle you can take chord..
Christian music and piano chords
Christian music and piano chords What is the relationship between Christian music and piano chords? The internet is full of some great things, and some not so great. If you are willing to sort thru and skip by the yucky stuff, you will find some great spiritual things. The internet is a great source for Christian and praise music, so why not learn to make your own music. If you are looking for Christian music and piano chord, you will have to search high and low to find..
Play piano by ear if you can hear you can play by ear!
Play piano by ear if you can hear you can play by ear! Play piano by numbers- easy as 1 2 3 Play Piano Chopsticks that annoying piano song
When you were a little girl or boy, you might have taken piano lessons. They were boring and repetitious. You never thought you could learn chopsticks piano play. Even those that songs grate on peoples nerves, they still want to learn how to play chopsticks on the piano. Honestly, no one really likes to spend hours trying to lea..
Printable chord chart for piano
Picture chord for piano making it easier to learn to play You are an intelligent adult, and you want to play the piano. Now, you can, with a printable chord chart for piano. It takes the mystery and confusion out of the chord chart for a piano because it is in print. Printable chord chart for piano This chord chart is placed right above your piano keys, so you can see what keys you are playing and how the notes work together to form chords. Super easy to use, the printa..
Why you should learn to play chord piano
Piano chord software easy and amazing Using the piano chord software is easy and fun. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or a particularly great at music. You do not have to sing, or dance or have any particular affinity to music. If you like music and want to learn to play the piano, you can use the piano chord software. Instead of spending hours banging out drills on the piano, and struggling to learn to read the music, you can use this amazing progra..
Piano chord music
Piano chord music making your own music
. Piano chord lyrics Piano chord list Piano chords online Piano chord pattern playing create your own musical style The piano chord pattern is simple and easy to learn with www.piano-playing-by-ear.com learning to play the piano program. Te piano chord pattern is easy to learn and you will be playing the piano quickly and with amazing speed. Even if you are one of these people who just do not learn things easily. If you..
Piano chord lessons
Piano chord lessons learning for free to play the piano Is there really such thing as getting a piano chord lesson off the internet for free? The internet is full of free things and free gives away items. Many of them are falsehoods and scams. They are not really free because you are giving away information about yourself that others can sell. If you are looking for a piano chord lesson that is affordable and free, you will have to search high and low to find a better progr..
Piano chord jazz progressions
Piano chord jazz progression jazzing it up your own way
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Piano chord generator
Piano chord generator easy and amazing Music is everywhere. You might enjoy humming, or whistling or even singing. If you want to learn how to play the piano, you can learn with ease with the piano chord generator. Using the piano chord generator is easy and fun. You do not have to be a rocket scientist or a particularly great at music. You do not have to sing, or dance or have any particular affinity to music. If you like music and want to learn to play the piano, you can..
Piano chord dictionary
Piano chord dictionary If you home school using a piano chord dictionary is a great way to introduce your children to playing piano. Although the play piano course is geared towards adults, this easy to use program can be used with teens and older children who have musical affinity and a genuine desire to learn. If you want to learn to play piano, try our easy to use piano chord dictionary. Piano chord diagram- easy as 1 2 3 So, you can learn how to play piano w..
Download piano chord chart
Download piano chord chart making it easier to learn to play You like music, and you want to play the piano. Now, you can use a piano chord chart download to learn how to play the piano quickly and easily. It takes the mystery and confusion out of the playing the piano. It is simple to obtain the piano chord chart download, just a click of the mouse and you are on your way! If you sit in awe of the entertainer at the party playing music with ease. He strings together tunes..
Piano chord books
Piano chord books - learn to play with ease Did you know that you can actually learn to play piano music with a piano chord book? Yes, it is simple and easy, almost child like. If you have a brain (if you are reading this you have a brain) you can follow the easy to use piano chord book and learn to play piano music with flair. Maybe you took piano lessons when you were a kid, and gave up after a few months. Move along, you are all grown up. Now, you can learn so much from thi..
Melody chords for piano.
Melody chords for piano making chord tunes before you know it! Did you know that you can actually learn to play melody chords for piano -- also known as chord tunes? Yes, it is simple and easy, almost child like. If you have a brain (if you are reading this you have a brain) you can follow the easy to use melody chord for piano and learn to play piano music with flair. Maybe you took piano lessons when you were a kid, and gave up after a few months. Move along, you are..
How to play piano chords
How to play piano chords you can learn how to play piano using chords When you were a little girl or boy, you might have taken piano lessons. They were boring and repetitious. You never thought you would learn to play chords with the piano. Honestly, no one really likes to spend hours learning how to play the piano by banging out drills that never get your anywhere. If you longed to learn how to play piano chords, then you came to the right place. Without spending hund..
How to play happy birthday on the piano learn to play
How to play happy birthday on the piano learn to play You might ask yourself, can I learn how to play happy birthday on the piano? Yes, you can. You can go online and search for programs on how to play happy birthday on the piano, and you will not find a better program than Play piano.coms playing piano. Learn how to play happy birthday on the piano in the comfort of your own home at your own pace. No stress, no one breathing down your next. No recital with twenty..
Guitar chords to piano
Guitar chords to piano If you can play guitar, you can play the piano. Half of the work of learning the piano is chords. If you translate guitar chord to piano, it is easy to play all of your favorite songs. Using the things you already know in guitar you take the guitar chord to piano and translate the chord. Most beginning guitar books have the chords placed about the actual chord of the music. You know the positions of the guitar chords, and how they sound. Translated guitar..
Free piano chord chart
Free piano chord chart making it easier to learn to play for free You are intelligent, and you want to play the piano. Now, you can, with a free piano chord chart. It takes the mystery and confusion out of the chord chart for a piano because it is in print right in front of you as you learn to play the piano. http://www.playpiano.com/5-dollar-chord-chart.htm This free piano chord chart (shipped to you for just $5. in shipping fees) is placed right ab..
Easy piano chord methods
Easy piano chord methods - getting the basics down for creating music The easy piano chord method is simple and easy to learn with Playpiano.coms learning to play the piano program. The easy piano chord method is easy to learn and you will be playing the piano quickly and with amazing speed. Even if you are one of these people who just do not learn things easily. If you feel like and old dog that can not learn new tricks, you can learn the easy piano chord. Once you m..
Basic piano chords
Basic piano chord- getting the basics down for creating music... The basic piano chord is simple and easy to learn with Playpiano.coms learning to play the piano program. Te basic piano chord is easy to learn and you will be playing the piano quickly and with amazing speed. Even if you are one of these people who just do not learn things easily. If you feel like and old dog that can not learn new tricks, you can learn the basic piano chord. Once you master the basic piano ch..
Blues piano chords
Blues piano chord the blues according to you
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Rock - play piano
Brilliant basics rock play piano more than Liberace
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Ear - free piano play!
By ear free piano play yes you can
Is there really such thing as by ear free piano play? The internet is full of free things and free gives away items. Many of them are falsehoods and scams. They are not really free because you are giving away information about yourself that others can sell. If you are looking for a by ear free piano play free, you will have to search high and low to find a better program that PlayPiano.coms lessons on by ear free piano play. This b..
Music study & brain development
Music Study & Brain Development For Increased Brain Growth, Just Add Music? Will listening to music make you smarter? Will learning to play a musical instrument make your brain grow larger than normal? Questions like these ones have been popping up all over the place in the past few years, and not just in scientific journals either. In recent times the media has been fascinated by the research surrounding brain development and musi..
Music & emotions
Music, Mood & Emotions (instead of Music Study & Romance) How Does Music Impact Our Emotions? How many times have you turned to music to uplift you even further in happy times, or sought the comfort of music when melancholy strikes? Music affects us all. But only in recent times have scientists sought to explain and quantify the way music impacts us at an emotional level. Researching the links between melody and the mind ind..
Music & citizenship
Music Study & Socialization & Personality Are Musicians Really Better Citizens? Disregard the popular image of rappers with their ghetto blasters, terrorizing neighborhoods with eardrum-splitting cacophony. Consider instead our delightful school bands and orchestras
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Chord key piano
Chord key piano making music before you know it! Did you know that you can actually learn to play chord key piano? Yes, it is simple and easy, almost child like. If you have a brain (if you are reading this you have a brain) you can follow the easy to use chord key piano and learn to play piano music with flair. Maybe you took piano lessons when you were a kid, and gave up after a few months. Move along, you are all grown up now and you can learn so..
Music study and goal achievement
Music Study & Goal Achievement New Research Proves Music Study Promotes Intellectual Development The idea that studying music improves the intellect is not a new one, but at last there is incontrovertible evidence from a study conducted out of the University of Toronto. The study, published in the August issue of Psychological Science was led by Dr. E. Glenn Schellenberg, and examined the effect of extra-curricular activities on the..
Roots of country music
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