Learning Musical Analysis at PTNA Piano Competition!
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Three volumes of books featuring musical analysis on required repertoires of PTNA Piano Competition 2014 are now on sale! This year, we have several new items to help students and teachers learn the music in depth.
First, the introduction to the Baroque music is newly added. Natsuki Sawatani, a music critic, explains the characteristics of Baroque period in terms of performing practice, instruments, counterpoint, dance music, and music scores.
Secondly, it offers hand-on analysis training for elementary levels. For the grade A1 (up to 8), we pick up a piece from Romantic repertoires, "Graceful Waltz" by J.A.Metcalf. The analyzing workflow is suggested by Eiko Matsuda, a piano teacher, with which one can understand how to study music in general. For the grade B, up to 10, students can study a piece thoroughly by copying scores note by note. The demonstration piece is "Du rythme à l'expression Op.108" by Jean Absil, and the study guideline is written by Mitsuzo Kusakabe, a composer.
Then, one might wonder how to apply textual analysis on to the real performance? These books contain two duo pieces "Das Neue Kinderliederbuch 2" by Heinz Schüngeler (intermediate level) and "Capriccio Espagnole Op.34" by Rimsky-Korsakov (advanced level), analyzed by pianists Kuni Seo & Shinichiro Kato. Their performances are also recorded on the demonstration CD so that one can learn music with analyzed scores and sounds at the same time.
Lastly, customers are eligible to display those scores on PC tablets by using piaScore, a sheet music readers applicable on ipad and iphone. By using this free application, you can turn pages with your physical movements, look at and listen to music and videos online, use the metronome function, and moreover, write / keep the texts and share them simultaneously with other people. Nowadays this application is used by many pianists, composers, teachers, students, etc.
We hope these books help you find better ways to study music.
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