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Offline pianistimo

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pianists hearing voices
on: December 30, 2005, 02:40:18 AM
ok.  it's an article.

www.articles/mi_m2493/is_5_51/ai_85061022

argh.  it won't come up.  anyway, it was an article in music teacher's journal about voicing and how to do it better.  will work on getting the right thread.

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Re: pianists hearing voices
Reply #1 on: December 30, 2005, 03:13:56 AM
ok.  it's an article.

...and I was expecting something about a classically trained axe murderer...

Is it this one?
https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2493/is_5_51/ai_85061022

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Re: pianists hearing voices
Reply #2 on: December 30, 2005, 10:00:58 AM
...and I was expecting something about a classically trained axe murderer...

I was trying to keep this a secret.
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Re: pianists hearing voices
Reply #3 on: December 30, 2005, 03:52:20 PM
...and I was expecting something about a classically trained axe murderer...

Is it this one?
https://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2493/is_5_51/ai_85061022

Yes that's the one; this was an excellent article, everyone should read it.
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Re: pianists hearing voices
Reply #4 on: December 31, 2005, 04:13:14 AM
thank you leahcim and arensky.  glad you liked reading it. at first i was searching the net for humor - to add to the joke thread.  unfortunately, my ability to tell jokes is always stimied by my attraction to long articles.  why can i read a long article and then not even be able to tell a three sentence joke?  there's something wrong with me? 

i was looking for a decent - good natured joke.  probably not to do so much with ax murderer's (sorry thalbergmad) as maybe just mildly deranged pianists hearing voices to tell them to play something like glen gould would.  then, they go to the piano and really 'wierd out' everything they play.  suddenly, everyone tells them that they have lots of feeling - when the truth is - they are just wierd.  and, maybe even eccentric.  maybe slightly craZy. 

*i had a long discussion with my bro last night (who plays excellently, by ear - while i stumble if i am unable to read the next group of notes) what it means to play with feeling.  this is a sort of branch off of 'hearing voices.'  you have certain techniques you can use to produce more 'feeling' but i was wondering what exactly my teacher had in mind to help me exhude more feeling.  voicing helps - but my brother told me i should put more of my personal feelings into the music instead of 'feeling' what the composer was feeling - or, thinking of stories or situations that the music reminded me of.  i told him it was very eas y for me to express peaceful or happy feelings - but very hard to express angry and sad because i felt that it would 'bare my soul' (when not happy) too much.  and, that i was taught to control those feelings - yet i know inside myself that piano is a good outlet for that sort of 'letting go.'  i am now experimenting with playing a piece the way i always play it (thinking of feelings other than my personal feelings at the moment - or, thinking back to ones i've had that match the music) and comparing the sound, by recording it, to when i play with as much personal feeling as i can.  really don't know if this will make a huge difference - but my bro says he thinks it will.

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Re: pianists hearing voices
Reply #5 on: December 31, 2005, 01:21:15 PM
...and I was expecting something about a classically trained axe murderer...

And I was expecting something about Schumann's auditory hallucinations!
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