Hi Everyone,Starting at about 30 seconds in, many are demonstrated. Do not attempt these at a piano competition as the jurors will become envious of your abilities and not give you an award.Mvh,Michael
Hi Louis,Thanks for the informative link!Mvh,Michael
Louis,1. A troll is a person who writes multiple inflammatory posts for the purpose of getting many people to start getting upset about things. I have never done such a thing, and asking you a question doesn't fit that definition in the first place.2. I have never written about Eurythmics before, ever.3. I happen to be in favour of Eurythmics and am familiar with it.I just could not imagine that it would be mandatory at every conservatory in the entire world, and I also cannot imagine those kinds of statistics to exist in the first place.Maybe I'm making the mistake of taking seriously what the members here write, and asking questions when something is not clear.I think that the importance of any system such as Eurythmics rests on its benefits and use, rather than whether it is mandatory in any number of institutions. In fact, sometimes quite nonsensical things are mandatory in institutions. The argument for it stands up quite nicely without that kind of statement.
Louis is not a troll...
Michael - Louis called ME a troll. And yes, it was an off-topic way of responding to my question through name-calling. So I gave a definition of trolls in order to show how off that accusation was. I also expressed support for Eurythmics. I first became familiar with it via Steiner and the Waldorf schools, when considering alternatives for my now-adult sons. I was impressed with the role this played in the children's education, and the wholeness of it all. I can easily see how beneficial it would be in music itself. I studied Mr. Aschbrenner's information some years ago when it first came up, was positively impressed, and have said so.If Louis wants to see disagreement and conflict where there is none, that is unfortunate. But I don't take kindly to being called a troll.
That "keypeg," is what a troll would do with my primary thesis of original performance practice. They (not necessarily you) would attack the "messenger" because they don't have the musicological facts to attack the predicate.