In my years of experience in Flute Didactics I was able to see that learning to express oneself musically requires both physical and psychic maturity, which can be reached with a didactic and psycho-kinesthetic study approach. The development of this musical awareness cannot ignore the acquisition, control and understanding, therefore of the basic elements of physiology and psychology that…
Sound is an acoustic phenomenon, i.e. audible to the ear, produced by the periodic vibrations of an elastic body. Which is the elastic body that produces the sound in a violin or a guitar is easy to say: the strings that compose them are stressed by the performers. How is the sound produced instead in the instrument?
What is the…
Until a few decades ago, if you wanted to record a piece for solo flute or for a musical ensemble, you had to go to a recording studio, pay for the room, equipment and technicians, and wait several days for our recording.
In fact, few were the musicians who could afford this “luxury”: for most, it was simply a dream.
Thanks…
This Sonata was written in Alma Ata during the painful years of the Second World War. Performed for the first time in 1943 by the flutist Charkovsky, “accompanied” on the piano by Sviatoslav Richter, the composer subsequently made a version for violin and piano, in collaboration with David Oistrakh. The piece still represents today an authentic masterpiece of the…
This text tells of a discovery, which took place a few years ago on the island of Stromboli: a case of vintage records, which belonged to a family of emigrants. The Tesoriero family had emigrated in the early twentieth century to the United States and Australia. One day, in ’48, Giuseppe Tesoriero sent a case of records as a…
English multifaceted composer of the 19th century. Paladina of women’s rights boasts a catalog that embraces multiple compositional genres. She was a significant voice of the 19th century British and European music.
di Onorio Zaralli Excerpt from Onorio Zaralli’s book “Playing with the soul” ©2017 Conoscere è una esigenza dell’uomo. Ignorare è un bisogno dell’uomo. La differenza è chiara: conosco, quando ho esigenza di imparare e di crescere liberamente; ignoro, se ho bisogno di nascondere, se preferisco “conservare” piuttosto che rischiare di perdermi nella libertà. Bene: per quanto riguarda l’universo emotivo,…
di Onorio Zaralli Tra i tanti programmi realizzati appositamente per l’audio editing quello che proponiamo è gratuito, semplice da usare e molto efficace: si chiama AUDACITY. Vediamo di scoprirne insieme le principali funzioni. Questa è l’interfaccia con la quale il programma si presenta; accertiamoci che, dall’elenco a discesa sulla destra, sia selezionata la voce “volume mic”. In effetti, altre…
by Nicola Rizzo Iniziamo oggi questo nostro viaggio alla scoperta della storia del flauto jazz, costellata da grandi successi e da un gran numero di flautisti che si sono avvicinati all’arte dell’improvvisazione. Non sono in pochi infatti, i flautisti o i musicisti a fiato, che si sono avvicinati al mondo del flauto jazz già a partire dalla seconda metà…
by Aiva Elsina Oh, teaching, TEACHING! “What a wonderful job!” I usually hear people saying when I mention my profession. Yes, we teachers have an important task to shape our students’ lives, to teach them discipline, concentration, sensibility, and many other indispensable skills. It is rewarding to see them progress with time, becoming better musicians and developing their own…
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