Hold Me, I’m a Fermata!
Following on from last week's post on rests, I'm going to move on to the fermata - or the pause. We find this marked on rests as well as on…
Exercises for Trills
Final post in a series on trills giving exercises to develop speed and fluency plus a neat trick!
On Editions
When we learn a piece of music from a score, it is important to be able to distinguish those markings that are from the pen of the composer, and those…
A Tribute to Claudio Arrau
Claudio Arrau (February 6, 1903 – June 9, 1991) is a very important figure in my musical upbringing. As an undergraduate piano student in London during the late 70's - and…