Welcome to this day to day sharing of insights into music. My thoughts and my playing reflect my lifelong drive to integrate primary reactions to sounds with a sense of playfulness open to lyricism as to intellectual game-playing - the level of musical response endangered if not already extinct due to the endemic compilations of sameness that make up our soundworld.
Friday, June 7, 2013
Schumann's "Melody"
The first piece in The Album for the Young, it is a perfect piece. In very few notes it arouses the deepest sense of what constitutes melody and how the piano is admirably suited to sing. Any set of three notes rising or falling has the power to tear your heart out. How? By arousing the deepest sense of conflicting modality between each successive note. How does it happen? By listening, of course.