How to benefit from Moyse’s Tone Developement Through Interpretation

by Cate Hummel At face value, Marcel Moyse’s Tone Development Through Interpretation seems like a hodgepodge of random melodies with little attribution and very little guidance as to where the melodies come from, what Moyse was trying to teach us, and little to no idea what we are supposed to be practicing. A lot of the confusion stems from the fact that the intended preface to the book was never included in the version that was published by McGinnis & Marx.  I first encountered Tone Development Through Interpretation when I was a young college student. The first Moyse books my … Continue reading How to benefit from Moyse’s Tone Developement Through Interpretation