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Respecting the music
An interesting article over on the Cross-Eyed Pianist blog (sparked by a heated debate amongst some fellow pianists on Facebook!) has got me thinking about whether certain repertoire should be...
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By Heart (book review)
Earlier this year, I received a copy of “By Heart: the Art of Memorising Music” by harpsichordist and blogger Paul Cienniwa. Published in 2014, this little gem is exactly the kind of book I had been...
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Letting things slip…
It’s been a while since I blogged about music. And a while since I thought actively about memorising. So perhaps it’s no surprise that I suffered an epic memory collapse over the weekend! Time to start...
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Visualisation in memorisation
After my less than auspicious performance a few weeks’ ago, I started thinking about how I could have diagnosed the problem and prevented the memory lapse before it occurred. Coincidentally, while I...
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Analysis of Scarlatti Sonata in C
What better remedy for a memory lapse than learning a little Scarlatti sonata? Scarlatti wrote an astonishing 555 keyboard sonatas over the course of his life (1685-1757). Although hugely diverse in...
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