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Introduction In this article I would like to give you, in a nutshell, an idea of the deep connections between Romanticism in Literature and Romanticism in Music. I will try to speak to you in a very concrete way and to go to the point of what I consider to be the most essential issues […]

Introduction As we think of 1770, the year Beethoven was born, the images of some of the protagonists of the history of all times flow in our eyes. The two centuries at the turn of which Beethoven was born represent a stormy moment of transition between radically different ways of seeing the world, which while

Introduction In this article I will try to explain to you, in the most practical way possible, my very personal method of study for piano scales. I'll pretend you don't know anything about this topic, and I'll guide you step by step in the study: you can use the index above to easily navigate through

Introduction In this article I would like to give you a key to study for a first approach to the History of Music. I will try not to fill you with historical notions that you could find anywhere online, and to provide you more than anything else with the coordinates to contextualize this subject in

Introduction The Sonata is among the most debated subjects of Musical Analysis. The most representative monument of this compositional form is certainly the work of L. V. Beethoven, more precisely his 32 Piano Sonatas, composed over a very long period of time: about 27 years. Without continuing along the lines of historical information now available

Introduction Sound represents a complex area of the analysis of a piece of music. In this article, we will take care of defining it and breaking it down into its essential components, exploring them one at a time: Timbre Texture Fabric Dynamics Joint The Stamp Nowadays there is a popularly widespread tendency to consider the

Introduction Compositions that have a small shape such as the Preludes of F. Chopin are comparable to the small stylistic structures of literature: the story is an example of form that concentrates in a very synthetic way all the dynamics of the narrative and allows us to make a faster analysis of what are the

Introduction The Motet is a vocal polyphonic form intended for the liturgical sphere: it is therefore a composition of Sacred Music. We Italians memorize and associate this term with difficulty with a liturgical composition, because the contemporary use of the word motto, especially in the Italian language, is associated mostly with mottos of spirit, therefore

Introduction We had left, in the last article, with a quote from Harmony by Walter Piston in which the author related chords and intervals, implicitly introducing us to the triad chord: you can buy the manual we talked about to deepen the contents of this article, piano chords, triads and more complex harmonic concepts, at

Introduction Musical intervals are the first tool we have to learn to read music more fluently, since they group two notes into a single musical concept. In a previous article we saw how harmful it is for our ability to read piano reading only one note at a time. Reading by notes taken individually, in