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EXCERPTS FROM “TIPS ON PRACTICING AND
PERFORMING”
DR. ANA MARIA TRENCHI BOTTAZZI
Booklet to be released to the public in August 2008
Since
this is the first time for hot tips we are including two of them.
In
the forthcoming weeks it will be one a week.
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1.
When learning a new musical composition the first thing we must
consider is to learn the harmonic structure of the work by playing the chords,
both written and broken, as solid
chords. Play each harmonic chord
only once and hold it for the exact number of beats in each measure.
Once we have mastered the
harmonies by practicing the solid chords, we can then proceed with the
interpretation of the work.
2.
A musical composition is very much like a story that we hear or
book that we read. It has chapters,
a story line to follow, the drama of each chapter and finally the dramatic
culmination of the entire work.
Each chapter in a musical
composition has a dramatic
The music, like a mountain
with its peaks, has the tallest one to which we ascend and from there we start
descending peacefully to the conclusion of the piece.
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