Piano Strings
Well, this is a unique way to the play the piano. It must have taken him forever to tie all those strings!
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Crazy Fast Piece by Turkish Composer
I’m going to be visiting Turkey soon to visit my youngest son, which inspired me to look up some Turkish piano music.
This piece was written by Turkish composer Ahmed Adnan Saygun (1907-1991) using aksak, which means “limping” or “stumbling.” It’s very fast with irregular rhythms. (Strictly speaking, in Turkish music theory the term refers only to the grouping of nine pulses into a pattern of 2 + 2 + 2 + 3.) For you math and computer experts, check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aksak
If you want to see a close-up of a pianist’s hands, go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=wi0vF7HG7gU This video is a bit wavy and slightly blurry, but you can see more of the fast repeated notes, the glissandi, and the fast octaves in both hands.
Believe it or not, after all the dissonance, this piece has a C major chord in it towards the end. See if you can hear it. Then match the last note of the piece to the piano and see what it is.
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Video Animations of Improvisational Music
I found some neat video animations of two improvisational pieces. It’s very interesting to see how the animators represented the music visually…
Here’s a video of a piano and bass improvisation:
And here’s a video for the song Giant Steps by famous jazz saxophonist, John Coltrane.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV4Iwh6Kl1c
Disassembled Upright Piano
This is a picture of an upright piano disassembled by Tom Fotheringham on the blog Things Organized Neatly. It’s amazing how many different pieces go into making a piano!
New Website, Blog, and Video!
Hi everyone! Welcome to my new website and blog. I’m excited to have a place where I can post fun things I find in the world of music, piano performance, accompaniment, teaching, and lessons.
For my first post, I want to share a video we just finished about my piano studio. I worked with the Boston video production company Extraneous Noise to produce the video. Hope you enjoy it!