Let the embrace do the talking
By yy on Mar 12, 2008 in Musicality | 0 Comments
This is a rather long-overdue response to a question posed by Kim Soon here, where it was asked
“at which time should the concept of musicality be introduced/emphasised and worked on?”
In the following, I will attempt to answer it mainly from the leader’s perspective.
Firstly, I have to say that since I generally try to stick to [...]
By yy on Jan 24, 2008 in Musicality | 0 Comments
A few days ago, in my attempt to describe my subjective feeling towards the driving beat of some typical orchestras (for the identification of these orchestras), I came up with the following (in my opinion) simple descriptions. No doubt, the purists may baulk at these over-generalisations, but I like them anyway.
Biagi, Roldolfo: head-on [...]
By yy on Jan 9, 2008 in Musicality | 0 Comments
Tango has sometimes been described as a “private conversation between two people”. But if we cut through the proverbial hyperbole, what does it mean exactly? Is it just leading/following: “I speak, you listen?” By the way, from what I can see, even when people may disagree in principle to the last statement, they are ultimately [...]
By yy on Jan 9, 2008 in Musicality, Videos | 0 Comments
“La Tapera” by Donato orchestra is one of my favourite Vals at the moment, as danced by one of the most musical dancers in the current generation of maestros. The calm seen in the first 40 seconds of the clip and around the 1:10 mark followed by the subsequent “explosion” is simply marvellous!
By yy on Nov 6, 2007 in Learning process, Musicality | 5 Comments
Recently some followers questioned the value of taking classes on musicality. To me this was rather strange, which I can only put down to having experienced bad teaching in the past. In my opinion, musicality goes way beyond recognising the stereotypical generalisations for each of the major orchestras, e.g. Pugliese is only represented by his [...]
