Category: Musical Analysis
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Diving into Rachmaninoff’s compositional style
Table of Contents Diving into Rachmaninoff’s compositional style Historical Background Rachmaninoff – Symphony No. 2 in E minor, Op. 27 3rd mov. Adagio (Advanced piano solo) & sheet music Pianism and Compositional Style Download the best Rachmaninoff’s sheet music from our Library Concert Performance Style Virtuosity Exile Post-Exile Compositions Next: Specific case studies. Diving into…
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Encountering BACH: a documentary film (2020)
Table of Contents Encountering BACH: a documentary film (2020) This documentary lets you visit Bach landmarks, discover his stories and music Download Bach’s and the best classical sheet music from our Library. The film is released in two versions: Mandarin and English. To read more about Bach: Encountering BACH: a documentary film (2020) This documentary…
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Chick Corea’s (RIP) advice for playing music in a group (1985)
Chick Corea’s (RIP) advice for playing music in a group (1985) Jazz instrumentalists who “play the changes” have learned to make improvisation look easy. In live performance, the audience shouldn’t see the years of study and practice behind what Willie Thomas calls at Jazz Everyone, “a system that combines the basic jazz language with the…
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Chick Corea: A Work in Progress… On being a Musician (Ed. 2002-2014)
Chick Corea: A Work in Progress… On being a Musician (Ed. 2002-2014) Personal Policies as a Musician I spend as much time and effort as is needed to get the musical product being envisioned, no matter what the barriers or the inconvenience. I don’t stop until I’ve got it. Though I may become interested in…
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How to play (5) like Chick Corea
Table of Contents How to play (5) like Chick Corea Pentatonics and Quartal Voicings Comping Single Note Lines The Maj7#5 Chord Slash Chords Download Chick Corea’s sheet musis transcriptions from our Library. Chick Corea LIVE (2018) ● Tracklist: ● Personnel: How to play (5) like Chick Corea For over five decades, Chick Corea has inspired…
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The Harmony of Bill Evans (2b)
The Harmony of Bill Evans (2b) PERI’S SCOPE – THEMATIC ANALYSIS In this article, I will analyze the thematic material of Bill’s tune, “Peri’s Scope.” My purpose will be to gain insight into the principles of good melody writing and, in Bill’s case, to get inside the creative mind of a genius as that mind…
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The Harmony of Bill Evans (3a) “Time remembered” Harmonic analysis
The Harmony of Bill Evans (3a) “TIME REMEMBERED“ – HARMONIC ANALYSIS (with sheet music) “Time Remembered” must have emerged from very deep within the musical mind of Bill Evans or, as he might have put it, from the “universal mind.” It is a composition that harmonically pays homage to the Modal period in music history,…
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The Harmony of Bill Evans (3b) “Time remembered” Modal analysis
Table of Contents The Harmony of Bill Evans (3b) “TIME REMEMBERED” – MODAL ANALYSIS (with sheet music) Bill Evans – Time Remembered – Full Album Tracklist: The Harmony of Bill Evans (3b) “TIME REMEMBERED” – MODAL ANALYSIS (with sheet music) This analysis totally ignores the harmonic progression composed by Bill, in order to observe the…
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The Harmony of Bill Evans (2a)
The Harmony of Bill Evans (2a) PERI’S SCOPE – HARMONIC ANALYSIS “Peri’s Scope” is a perfect model to initiate a discussion of two-handed piano voicing principles that are root oriented. There are three rules or directions to follow: Observe in all of the examples that the root is always the bass note and above the…