Category: Listening
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Listening, part 3: phrasing
As a follow-up to my previous two blog posts on listening I did a Harp Tuesday episode to try to demonstrate what exactly I mean by phrasing, or the space between the notes! I take a listen to three different recordings of a single bar from Chopin’s Nocturne, Op. 9 No. 2. Part 1: focused…
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Listening, part 2: stories
In listening, part 1, I mentioned closing one’s eyes when listening to remove the visual stimuli. This can have much more of an effect than we think, for example check out this illusion! I also talked about ignoring the sound quality of the recording to focus on phrasing. Both of those tie into what I…
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Focused listening – part one
(this was originally sent out to my email newsletter subscribers – join my list here) Hi all, We’re often surrounded by music; it can be a soundtrack to everything we do (exercise, work, cooking, reading, watching movies, etc.) and yet it can be very rare to actually sit down and just listen to something, focused…