Browse

Playing by ear, or picking by ear is a certain performing artВ’s activity based on a reproduction of a known music piece, without the written music (or not looking at a score). While playing by ear, different types of musicianВ’s activity are synthesized, which make him/her more like a universal musician of past centuries who was a composer, a performer and an improviser in one person. Playing by ear allows a music teacher to greatly enrich the repertoire of music lessons, including in it the unpublished works. In...

Melodic interpretation of an instrument (the piano) is the main part of piano performance. One of the most important criteria of the quality of a pianist’s performance is an ability to show piano’s melodic potential, to convey the vocal expressiveness to the sound of a melodic “tapestry”. Many well-known concert pianists used exquisite piano cantilena, a piano “sang” in their performances, relaying a palette of nuances of vocal intonation using the means of pianistic sonority. The study and research of t...