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Topic: Liszt 'Romance', s169 next to last measure help  (Read 1592 times)

Offline dogperson

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Liszt 'Romance', s169 next to last measure help
on: October 15, 2015, 10:22:33 PM
The next to last measure of Liszt' "Romance" has the melody voiced in the interior of the chord.  I have not found a good audio of it performed:  Lang Lang ignored the inner melody; amateur pianists drop the notes above the melody. 

I can play it really slow with the proper voicing, but it gets lost if I try not to pause between the melody note and the upper notes.

In the attached score, the melody is G, A, g F C D sharps

Any advice? 

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Re: Liszt 'Romance', s169 next to last measure help
Reply #1 on: October 15, 2015, 10:32:18 PM
I honestly am not this level yet, but I can give you what I think my new teacher would say:

Don't try to voice it. The voicings will come out themselves, because the top b is always playing, so the listener will pay attention to the melody anyways. If you try voicing it, it will sound abnormal.

That's what my new teacher would say, I think.

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Re: Liszt 'Romance', s169 next to last measure help
Reply #2 on: October 15, 2015, 11:00:25 PM
Thanks for the advice--- the problem is that when I listen to Lang Lang, who ignores the problem, my ear is not being drawn to the melody... Is yours?  Taking his approach would certainly solve what I think as a problem.




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Re: Liszt 'Romance', s169 next to last measure help
Reply #3 on: October 15, 2015, 11:10:24 PM
Thanks for the advice--- the problem is that when I listen to Lang Lang, who ignores the problem, my ear is not being drawn to the melody... Is yours?  Taking his approach would certainly solve what I think as a problem.






Oh, then maybe I'm wrong. I was just thinking that my teacher would say that.  :-[

I don't bother to listen to Lang Lang. Even though he is, BY FAR, a superior musician to me, I'd rather listen to someone like Andre LaPlante or Krystian Zimerman.

(And I know this is irrelevant, but....

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Krystian Zimerman <333333)
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