Anoushik Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 P.S. Why do you have to ask your te4cher to be able to work on something that you wish? Can't you just work without your teachers approval? style_images/master/snapback.png You clearly don't know music teachers Sasun, my teacher is not only a private teacher that I take lessons from; she is a professor at the university where I'm earning my degree and every performance major has to take the required lessons from the university faculty and at the end of the semester perform in the required jury performance. The jury consists of the faculty (in my case piano faculty, which last time was 10 people in the room Scary ) . Of course every teacher wants to give her students pieces that she thinks the student will excell in, and even though they teach at the university level and the students are relatively advanced and know what they can handle the teachers still want to be in charge. Now... when I said you don't know music teachers I meant that the teachers can be very stubborn Also, they tend to give the students pieces that they know very well because they've performed it numerous times before and they don't want to take the trouble to research and study unknown pieces with their students. I think that's what happened with me. I'm sad to say that just by the look of my teacher when I told her I wanted to study that Prelude and Fugue it occured to me that she doesn't know this piece and that's why she didn't want to give it to me Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 I forgot to add that the Prelude and Fugue in B minor is very complicated and not many students play four-voiced fugues, at least not as undergraduates Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Anoushik, you are right I don't know anything about music teachers. I have been exposed to one teacher only shortly. When I was a kid I went to a guitar class one day. The teacher gave me a book full of notes and the history of music and other very uninteresting things, and asked me to learn and come back to the next class. I didn't go to the next class, that was it for me unfortunately . So I understand you can't learn without a teacher. But maybe you can, why not try if you really want to learn that work? For fun and for your own satisfaction. Or is it really impossible? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Oh no I'm learning it She told me that if I come back after the break and it sounds good she'll consider it Classes start next week (Jan. 10) and so far I haven't done much I have to practice long hours next week to at least have the notes fully learned (the fugue is six pages and I'm a horrible procrastinator) I'm sure she won't be pleased that I haven't done much over the break but I'm just as stubborn as her and I'll make sure that I'll play that fugue in the next jury Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 When I was a kid I went to a guitar class one day. The teacher gave me a book full of notes and the history of music and other very uninteresting things, and asked me to learn and come back to the next class. I didn't go to the next class, that was it for me unfortunately style_images/master/snapback.png Yeah, it's important that the teacher doesn't overwhelm the young beginner (or old) but encourages him to be interested in music by talking about music rather than asking for you to go home and read about it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Hello all What is your favorite Classical piece/composition? Even if you don't have any favorite what do you like to listen to most? This includes any genre, form, (symphonic, chamber, solo instrumental, vocal, choral, even film music that's now considered to be classical, etc). Thanks! My absolute favorite is J.S. Bach's Chaconne from Partita No. 2 for solo violin. style_images/master/snapback.png Bach is not classic, it's Baroc. OK, OK, I'm making myself look like a total @ss. Beside my musics, my favoured ones will be found on the link Azat gave. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
vava Posted January 3, 2005 Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 My recent favourite are the Impromtus for piano Opus 90 by Schubert. I don't normally like schubert too much, but these pieces are fabulous... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 3, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2005 Bach is not classic, it's Baroc. OK, OK, I'm making myself look like a total @ss. Beside my musics, my favoured ones will be found on the link Azat gave. style_images/master/snapback.png Oh come on, don't be lazy You don't want to take the time to write your favorites here too? Vava, Schubert and J. S. Bach are my favorite composers. I'm sure you'll like Schubert's piano sonatas too if you liked his impromptus Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" is my all time favourite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gamavor Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 You still play the piano? Do you practice daily, once in a while, occasionally? Do you play jazz? I'd love to play jazz but I'm not familiar with the jazz chords. style_images/master/snapback.png From time to time and it is very depressing I see my fingers are not the same. Jazz, - well never mastered that level. I played Ragtime by Brubeck long time ago. Anoushik, your are opening an old wound! Please don't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Edvard Grieg's "Peer Gynt" is my all time favourite. style_images/master/snapback.png That's one of my favorites too. For some reason this work sounds so Armenian to me. Does anyone else think that way? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Does anyone else think that way? style_images/master/snapback.png Me. Especially the Solveig's Song. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Frankly, I think Shubert is quite a boring composer... His music is very simple and not interesting... I feel like I listen to the same thing over and over and over and over... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Armen Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Frankly, I think Shubert is quite a boring composer... His music is very simple and not interesting... I feel like I listen to the same thing over and over and over and over... style_images/master/snapback.png Why would you listen to him THAT often then (I mean over and over and ...)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Why would you listen to him THAT often then (I mean over and over and ...)? style_images/master/snapback.png I mean when I listen to his music, it feels like I listen to the same thing all the time. =] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 (edited) Apparently you haven't listened enough to Schubert's compositions. In the contrary, Schubert is a great composer because his music sounds simple, but it's not. His every composition contains so many different layers of melodic material and themes yet it sounds effortless. For this reason alone he is a brilliant composer. Listen to his piano sonatas (they are a bit long, I have to admit) and you'll see what I'm talking about. Edit: This message is directed to Spectra. Edited January 6, 2005 by anoushik Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spectra Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Apparently you haven't listened enough to Schubert's compositions. In the contrary, Schubert is a great composer because his music sounds simple, but it's not. His every composition contains so many different layers of melodic material and themes yet it sounds effortless. For this reason alone he is a brilliant composer. Listen to his piano sonatas (they are a bit long, I have to admit) and you'll see what I'm talking about. Edit: This message is directed to Spectra. So far I don't like his music because it's very soft (I don't know how musicians use the termin for it...). I think you can play his music at midnight and your neighbours (maybe my neigbours: all pissed off at Sona's Ravel, Rach, Bethoven and other heavy playing) wont even bother at all. Anyway, his music simply doesn't feet my taste =] I guess it's ok, no? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 So far I don't like his music because it's very soft (I don't know how musicians use the termin for it...). I think you can play his music at midnight and your neighbours (maybe my neigbours: all pissed off at Sona's Ravel, Rach, Bethoven and other heavy playing) wont even bother at all. Anyway, his music simply doesn't feet my taste =] I guess it's ok, no? style_images/master/snapback.png A bit off topic, but as a pissed off neighbor myself I can tell you that it is a very bad thing to annoy your neighbors at night. If your sleep is disturbed at night the follosing day is pretty much ruined too. So next time you listen to heavy playing at midnight please think of the consequences Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DominO123 Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Apparently you haven't listened enough to Schubert's compositions. In the contrary, Schubert is a great composer because his music sounds simple, but it's not. His every composition contains so many different layers of melodic material and themes yet it sounds effortless. For this reason alone he is a brilliant composer. Listen to his piano sonatas (they are a bit long, I have to admit) and you'll see what I'm talking about. Edit: This message is directed to Spectra. style_images/master/snapback.png To add, Schubert music is a lot "Beethoveenish." That was what probably Beethoven musics will sound like if they were softer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Anyway, his music simply doesn't feet my taste =] I guess it's ok, no? style_images/master/snapback.png Of course it's OK Similarly I don't like Schumann's piano music in general. I've found that people who usually like Schubert don't like Schumann and people who usually like Schumann don't like Schubert. Interesting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 A bit off topic, but as a pissed off neighbor myself I can tell you that it is a very bad thing to annoy your neighbors at night. If your sleep is disturbed at night the follosing day is pretty much ruined too. So next time you listen to heavy playing at midnight please think of the consequences style_images/master/snapback.png Sasun, Spectra's post was a bit misleading. He doesn't listen to music at midnight but in his household there is another pianist who practices the piano. He is just saying that my neighbors are more generous since they have never complained about me practicing the piano while they have a neighbor who's uneasy about someone practicing the piano during the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 To add, Schubert music is a lot "Beethoveenish." That was what probably Beethoven musics will sound like if they were softer. style_images/master/snapback.png Agree completely! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sSsflamesSs Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 I get goosebumps every time I listen to Vivaldi's The Four Seasons: Summer, especially during the last third of it (Presto). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sasun Posted January 6, 2005 Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 Sasun, Spectra's post was a bit misleading. He doesn't listen to music at midnight but in his household there is another pianist who practices the piano. He is just saying that my neighbors are more generous since they have never complained about me practicing the piano while they have a neighbor who's uneasy about someone practicing the piano during the day style_images/master/snapback.png OK I am curious, did you conclude all that from his post? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anoushik Posted January 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted January 6, 2005 OK I am curious, did you conclude all that from his post? style_images/master/snapback.png I know him Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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