Nancy Garniez

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.

Tuesday, February 10, 2015

The Blog Has Moved

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Today is the last current post.  I have already begun daily posts at www.tonalrefraction.com/blog.html .  Visit me there.  Make your presenc...

Are Dots Digital?

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I'm talking about the little dots attached to "stems" and "flags" or "beams" that are the stuff of standar...
Monday, February 9, 2015

BLOG MOVING

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New location:  Take a look:   www.tonalrefraction.com .  While there visit the site's other pages.

Why Don't We Learn to Value the Multi-dimensionality of Sound?

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Simple answer: It takes too long. More complicated answer: In order to do so you would have to sit still - already an out-of-date proposit...
Sunday, February 8, 2015

Reacting to Knowledge is not Reacting to Sound

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"It's an A.  Go away and don't bother me; I know how to play that note!" "Do you really?  What if I play a bass F w...
Saturday, February 7, 2015

BLOG MOVING: A REMINDER!

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As of yesterday, Feb. 6 the blog posts are going up on my website: www.tonalrefraction.com  See you there! And while you're there take...

Attention Span too Short?

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Yesterday I had one of those bus-ride chats with a colleague who had just performed a "Schubert's Last Year" recital the previ...
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Nancy Garniez
New York
Putting the improvisatory impulse back into music playing at all levels prompts my new teaching initiative. Get in touch if you are interested. Visit the website to learn more.
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