I was thrilled to see that my new friends, the White Oak Trio, now have two videos up. This is exciting, because now every Good Musician can hear what a piano trio is supposed to sound like. Not only that, one of the videos interposes an interview with the group and live performances. Listen, and you’ll learn oodles about what goes in to making good music, and good music being made! This is a group to follow closely…
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The Texas Choral Directors Association publishes the member magazine Texas Sings!. The latest issue features an article by Dr. Debbie Rohward from the University of North Texas on the importance of clear, attenuated, immediate, and appropriate feedback to further improvement. We all know that negative feedback results in negative understanding and growth. Rohward suggests that the good music teacher focuses student attention on specific and attainable goals on which to build musical competency.
Examining a musical component such as pitch, tone quality, dynamics, and the like helps build an aural framework that the musician can build on, and leads to …read more
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