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Keith Jarrett - Somewhere Over the Rainbow

"Where words end , the music begins. "

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"The quality of the study of the piano"

taught to play the piano is not easy, and not for various reasons.

In my experience, gained in recent years of private teaching, I have often been faced with unmotivated students, conducted a lesson plan for a passion more "parental" that authentic, sometimes because "it is right that the boys keep busy "and, at worst, only to costume. For many, sending his son to piano lessons, have a nice piano in the house, is " chic", so the lesson plan, disguised as student interest, it becomes shared (by the adult- parent) of an attitude socio-cultural niche.

so doing, we overlook and forget the hopelessly main reasons that should guide a Boys in the study of the instrument:

1) the passion for music;

2) the awareness on the part of parents, who is studying piano for a boy, learning at least as it is the study of Italian, mathematics, history, science, etc. ... if not more;

The other age-old problem of who teaches piano (or music in general) is that you have to deal with volleyball, basketball, football, swimming pool, a project to school, computer classes and English, dance ... classical, modern, funky ... and the chess tournament, one of the neighborhoods ... and a whole series of commitments that make the life of a teenager (and very often pre-teen) agenda a bit 'too full, perhaps so full that you can see the first signs of stress in children 10 years already!

If all this we add that some student at some point, without notice, may get up one morning convinced that the most suitable to itself but not the piano or the trumpet, accordion,

(or all 'and two) but also the guitar, saxophone, clarinet and so on and so forth, you'd think:

"Ok, ok ... change job!"

these problems aside for a moment we can say a few words on this preliminary study, which is the real purpose of my post. The argument

-study is important for a musician more than for any other professional. The study is the daily practice that will accompany him, from the beginning to the end of his eventual career as a concert or teaching, I love the study compared the performance of an instrument of the athlete who trains his body always in a spirit of sacrifice and dedication. It is for this reason that on this same issue could spill rivers of words without exhausting the content and pedagogical meanings, related to them, the teaching proposal.

We begin by saying that the student must study trying to achieve the best result, optimizing the time above, then learning to work with continuity and awareness without wasting time in vain.

for "awareness" is the ability to study increasingly being "enlightened" by the logic and rationality, preferring quality to the detriment of the amount of study. As Sandor says G.

in "The Art of playing ," the study - " should not be automatic and mechanical activity, and should take place instead under the effective control of the brain " - even if you are simply exercising exercises in pure technique - I would add - though not require a particular intellectual effort. (I highly recommend the study of technology pure only after one of the pieces of footage, just because the exercises are reduced to simple rhythmic and melodic formulas or other physical-mechanical digital).

Asked how long does it take to study a day to learn to play the piano well there is no answer. There are too many variables that go to influence the amount of study required, and include the pupil's motivation, the objectives to be achieved, not forgetting of course the actual potential of the small piano. Studying well is difficult, effortless, and above all attention by supervisors. The teacher's task is to facilitate learning and "teaching to learn ".

greater the presence of supervisors in the daily work of the pupil, and the greater the results. Various statistics have shown that cases of" enfants prodiges "develop in situations cognitive-motivational and cultural fit, then, wanting to make an example, a father / mother / teacher in the house that constantly supervises the study of his son, may be a factor of great advantage (though not a rule), as it helps the student to remove from their practice everything that there can be unnecessary and ineffective.

A true case of child prodigy, Beatrice Rana, 15 years old Lecce live in Flaiano Auditorium in Pescara, playing the Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 1 Tchaikovsky Op.23 (Fragment) - Dir Dario Lucantoni (Orchestra Sinfonica di Pescara)

The most common mistake for an inexperienced student is to repeat the same song several times without stopping on the sections and problems more difficult.

In this way you risk losing hours on the meter with the results, most times, frustrating.

And this is precisely why a student can practice the piano every day without fail to make satisfactory progress, while another shows improvement every day studying maybe less but with knowledge of the facts.

E 'this talent more important, in my opinion, for a student: the ability to observe what he does while playing the "let alone " or becoming a true "master of himself "These are habits that will bring only benefits, unlike those who, while putting so much effort, do not realize that to memorize and repeat a hundred times a bad performance will never lead to not better, not reaching the much sought after perfection Music (somewhat relative concept).

Unfortunately, as always, what is more useful it is increasingly difficult to obtain, and in fact rational study is one that requires greater marketability in terms of energy and mental resources, and above all, more reasons to be dealt with seriously.

comforted guys, when you consider that they are not rare cases where less gifted and less gifted students from a purely musical point of view, they sound better than other "geniuses " lazy and listless.

It is not the one who said that at an early age is considered a "young promise" become a great performer.

Damiano Franco

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"On the Reform of Education hoped Italian Music" Music and the brain

Minister Mariastella Gelmini: POSTPONED!

The new High School Musical is about to be born. In the hope that something can move in the Italian musical world of education I can not express some concerns.

Yes I am puzzled.

premise that there are currently three high schools already Musical, namely Giuseppe Verdi (1981), "Arrigo Boito" in Parma (1979), "Bonporti" of Trent (1982) operating in conjunction with the Academy providing dual enrollment High School-Conservatory. The future of these high schools that already exist and the whole "experimental" is somewhat uncertain, because it is not clear whether these Music High School will be automatically converted into the new regulations.

High School Musical-choral provided by Gelmini, which should begin in school year 2010/2011 and to become fully operational in 2013 (it seems), will be an autonomous Institute, at the behest of the Minister of Education even though it is inevitable the first time a collaboration with existing conservatories and academies of dance for competence.

The initial problem is the small number of facilities throughout the Italian territory. Gelmini has provided 40 (ten with only the option of dancing), even if the requests arrived at the Ministry are far higher than expected (something like 100 requests).

Emilio Ghezzi, director of the Conservatory of Parma, a few months ago talked of a possible selection at the entrance. Since few places (something like 40 high schools consist of only one section, 25 students per section for a total of only a thousand attending), high school music and dance could therefore be the first case of a limited number of high school.

I wonder why!

Why make any selection in high school when you can safely postpone any entrance exam to the so-called "University of Music" as happens regularly in all the other university faculties?

The application of a high school with these characteristics, market of 'education, is high. We have already said that the ministry came one hundred requests. And even in the wake of successful transmissions of the "talent show", so beloved by teenagers, the new high school could be taken 's assault. The advisers of the Gelmini

mention selection to be made on the basis of "talent" of future high school ...

The question arises: Dear Minister Gelmini, you are also informed that he was excluded from Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan as it was considered "very talented"? um ... excuse me ... you know who Giuseppe Verdi was not it?

But you know what they tell us employees of the Minister Gelmini?

"The Ministry of employees Gelmini families rely on common sense: it is unnecessary to include those unable to dance or is out of tune, just because that kind of school is fashionable. We should take example, someone dares, the two Professor of School of 'Friends', Alessandra Celentano, Luca Jurman, the more selective than that for your own good you say if you have the numbers or not. "

These few lines are reported in an article a few months ago written by Giulio Benedetti Corriere della Sera.

And I continue to be perplexed.

I wonder what can you expect from a thirteen / fourteen year old who wants to join the High School Musical, but he has never touched a musical instrument in his life! For goodness sake, do not delude ourselves, why not come out even benefit those who come from a secondary school degree to address the musical, as the latter in particular is thought to saggietto Christmas or New Year's concert, regardless of real musical education of the pupil. (One might say: these are not vocational middle school ...)

Above all, I wonder if it is so difficult to understand that the serious study of music must be cultivated since childhood, and then, if you really want trained "musicians and music lovers" (as stated by Gelmini and his colleagues) should be taught music right from primary school or even earlier.

And I be accused of exaggeration if I say that it would be better if it proceeded from the kindergarten, take example from the Japanese who put a tool in the hands of children 3 / 4 years just to get used to making music!

The benefits would be different: first the possibility of forming a macro-environment aware of what the wonderful world of music, then there is the possibility of creating a substrate of kids who come to the end of the secondary school of first instance are ready to make an informed choice, based on a "real" passion and above all to prepare (which is good). In the meantime he would attend to these "phantom" high schools the opportunity to deepen their knowledge of music theory and practice.

Finally, there would be an opportunity for so many musicians in the Conservatory graduates and unemployed (employed only in the frequency of courses and corsets parauniversitari, still in storage) and that did not (unfortunately for them) the chance to wake up "little Mozart "to teach in these structures, perhaps by setting up the study of music, nature trail, as a compulsory not optional.

But enough criticism ... there are some positives (???)

The degree of the newborn High School Musical choral-open its doors to conservatories and academies. There is talk of more outlets: soloist, orchestra, teaching, special music may be required by the new professional world of media. There are many such opportunities in the field of electronic and digital music, strong in evolution. There is room in the field of concert-performance practice, with numerous early music festivals and, finally, some might be content to become an amateur with the "D" capital ", as often happens abroad. We think Austria and Germany, where on Sundays we meet for a bit 'of good music.

with us and instead think only only to the batch or Big Brother.

And now, here is another story ...

Damiano Franco