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Topic: Help with Baroque ornaments (Read 5284 times)

nmitchell076

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I need help lightening up my ornaments in the baroque style, particularly in passages where you are playing two voices in a single hand and you must execute the ornament while playing a moving passage in the same hand.

I can do the ornaments, its not like I see them and freak out without a clue as to what to do. But they don't have that flow that say, Glenn Gould has. Ornamentation has always been a problem of mine as they always come off as either "punchy" or sloppy. Can someone suggest an exercise to lighten up my ornaments and to help them flow a bit better?

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Pieces:
Beethoven - Sonata No. 17 in D minor, Op. 31 No. 2
Chopin - Nocturne in Bb minor Op. 9 No. 1
Debussy - "La Danse De Puck"
Somers - Sonnet No. 3, "Primeval"
Gershwin - Concerto in F

ramseytheii

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Re: Help with Baroque ornaments

Reply #1 on: April 15, 2010, 03:38:41 AM

Elevate your wrist.

Walter Ramsey

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keyboardclass

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Re: Help with Baroque ornaments

Reply #2 on: April 15, 2010, 05:55:24 AM

Try my trill exercise:
Change from 4-5, to 3-4, to 2-3 as you go:

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