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Understanding the Power of Scales: A Composer’s Guide to Piano Mastery

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Scales for music composition Understanding the Power of Scales: A Composer’s Guide to Piano Mastery For a composer, scales are not merely exercises for finger dexterity; they are the backbone of music theory, the foundation upon which melodies and harmonies are built. In the context of piano composition, scales offer an intricate language that informs […]

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What is a Canon? Differences with imitation

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What is a Canon? Differences with imitation As music tutors, we know the answer very well, but I have heard these questions repeatedly from lots of my piano students. Firstly, we have to make a difference between imitation and canon. They are related, but not the same thing. We can define canon

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What is the Fourth Species in Counterpoint?

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https://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/post/counterpoint-fourth-species Firstly, for all piano students out there studying Counterpoint, this is the easiest species to study. In general, Piano teachers don’t foster the study of Counterpoint to their students, and focus only on the technique, the expression and the stylistic approach of the pieces; but for the most advanced students, knowing the notes is not enough

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THE IMPORTANCE TO STUDY COUNTERPOINT

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The importance to study Counterpoint What is Counterpoint? For any student, but especially piano students, the Contrapuntal technique is, along with Harmony, the most important topic to study in order to grasp the concept of voice leading truly, and every Baroque piece was ever written! In our last post, we explained the difference and main topics

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Counterpoint vs. Harmony

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Counterpoint vs. Harmony Analysis. https://www.piano-composer-teacher-london.co.uk/post/two-part-counterpoint Why Should We Learn Counterpoint? The most common topic among piano students is to search for Harmony studies to understand the chords they are playing. For the piano tutors and composers, the study of Harmony is an advantageous approach either to sight-reading or to analyse the chord progressions of the

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The Origin of Harmony: A Physics view

The importance of knowing Key signatures and how to spot them

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Key signatures are the symbol of the raw materials that a piece of music is constructed. This gives us valuable information to know which harmonic journey. Knowing in which key is a piece is especially useful for piano students as the instrument is essentially harmonic. It should be the responsibility of all piano tutors to

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