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super_ardua

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"French style"

on: November 19, 2004, 05:51:48 PM

Hear it a lot. What is the french style of playing anyway?

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lostinidlewonder

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Re: "French style"

Reply #1 on: November 23, 2004, 02:37:45 AM

Elasticity of tempo/volume? Making it your playing sound more organic rather than technical. I guess if you listen to lots of French Music, Ravel and Debussy for instance, you will hear it demonstrated.
Personally, i think that there is not really any more clearly defined schools of piano playing like it was years ago. I think it is more of a melting pot nowadays than anything else.

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julie391

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Re: "French style"

Reply #2 on: November 23, 2004, 05:12:06 PM

there are a few french styles

the baroque, the classical/romantic, and the impressionistic

in the romantic era, there was a 'style severe' that prohibited excessive rubato, and had a generally much stricter and classical approach - i believe saint-saens and alkan were advocates of this style.

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rachlisztchopin

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Re: "French style"

Reply #3 on: November 24, 2004, 02:31:13 AM

I think french music is my fav

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julie391

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Reply #4 on: November 25, 2004, 02:03:49 AM

french music is often thought of as light-weight though

alkan should resolve this misconclusion

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minimozart007

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Reply #5 on: January 11, 2005, 02:29:24 AM

one of the form patterns of French music is two short phrases followed by a longer phrase. See Conversations between Beauty and Beast from Ravel's Mother Goose.

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