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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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Re: "French style"
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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Re: "French style"
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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