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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,…
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…
Das atmende Klarsein (1981)ovvero La Chiarezza che respira di Francesca Cescon Il compositore Luigi Nono (Venezia 1924-1990) nel suo ultimo decennio di vita ha dedicato al flauto contemporaneo opere uniche e rivoluzionarie ed è impossibile separare il primo da Roberto Fabbriciani, magistrale interprete delle sue musiche. Das atmende Klarsein, l’opera qui presa in esame ed eseguita per la prima…
di Vilma Campitelli Anna Bon, virtuosa, cantante e compositrice veneziana del XVIII secolo. Un raro esempio di professionista alle corti Europee del ‘700.Compone pagine per flauto, per voce e per clavicembalo piene di quello spirito fresco e giovane in grado di anticipare stili e tempi. La sua unica biografia si evince dai frontespizi e dalle dediche apposte nelle tre…
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