How to Play Ornaments on the Piano - Music Performance
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Date: 2022-03-28
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Stefano
Always crystal clear and super helpful Maestro Gareth. I have two questions regarding the turn, if I may.
First question: I have never seen inverted turns written with crossing lines, but rather like normal turn signs with the first hump going down, as if mirrored along a horizontal axis; is that exactly the same inverted turn or does it mean anything else?
Second question is how to play a standing turn (like S) and its inverted homologous.
Finally, I'd love if you considered posting a video on more ornamentation signs e.g. double mordents, embellished with parenthesis-like heads and tails, and so on.
Thanks a lot for your great teaching!
Stefano from Italy
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Always crystal clear and super helpful Maestro Gareth. I have two questions regarding the turn, if I may.
First question: I have never seen inverted turns written with crossing lines, but rather like normal turn signs with the first hump going down, as if mirrored along a horizontal axis; is that exactly the same inverted turn or does it mean anything else?
Second question is how to play a standing turn (like S) and its inverted homologous.
Finally, I'd love if you considered posting a video on more ornamentation signs e.g. double mordents, embellished with parenthesis-like heads and tails, and so on.
Thanks a lot for your great teaching!
Stefano from Italy
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Marcello
Hello, I would like to ask 2 questions.
1. The grace notes in appogiaturas you wrote it with a crochet. But what if the grace notes there are written with quavers or semiquavers, is there a difference? Does that affect the note values?
2. And how about double appogiaturas, I see they are usually written in semiquavers, so how to divide the note values?
Thanks.
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Hello, I would like to ask 2 questions.
1. The grace notes in appogiaturas you wrote it with a crochet. But what if the grace notes there are written with quavers or semiquavers, is there a difference? Does that affect the note values?
2. And how about double appogiaturas, I see they are usually written in semiquavers, so how to divide the note values?
Thanks.
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wayne
what are those grace notes called after a trill? you called them closure notes but I often see notes after a trill and they are considered a -grouped trill phrase- is this called anything in classical theory because you have to put closure notes after a trill but not sure what they are called in classical terms.
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what are those grace notes called after a trill? you called them closure notes but I often see notes after a trill and they are considered a -grouped trill phrase- is this called anything in classical theory because you have to put closure notes after a trill but not sure what they are called in classical terms.
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Martin
You can read a complete list of ornaments, as far as we know today, in
Thierry Mathis, Le Clavecin en France (Latour)
There is about 23. The real problem is to play the ornaments which are not written down. There are a few rules but mostly it is a matter of taste. But what is taste?
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You can read a complete list of ornaments, as far as we know today, in
Thierry Mathis, Le Clavecin en France (Latour)
There is about 23. The real problem is to play the ornaments which are not written down. There are a few rules but mostly it is a matter of taste. But what is taste?
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Andrew
If I made the rules, composers would either put the -actual sound- of the ornament in brackets or eve better, just write it in full the first time. How am I meant to know if the notes in a trill or mordant are a tone or half tone apart?
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If I made the rules, composers would either put the -actual sound- of the ornament in brackets or eve better, just write it in full the first time. How am I meant to know if the notes in a trill or mordant are a tone or half tone apart?
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uhoh007
Great presentation. thank you. Just what I need right now. I hope someday you bone up on Partimento and the Rule of the Octave, as there are few videos like this...yet, focused on the revival of Neapolitan improvisation.
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Great presentation. thank you. Just what I need right now. I hope someday you bone up on Partimento and the Rule of the Octave, as there are few videos like this...yet, focused on the revival of Neapolitan improvisation.
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Elizabeth
Great video, thank you for posting! I have not played piano in many years and am beginning to dust off my skills while in quarantine. This was very helpful. Hello from Chicago, USA!
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Great video, thank you for posting! I have not played piano in many years and am beginning to dust off my skills while in quarantine. This was very helpful. Hello from Chicago, USA!
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captlynhall
Thanks so much. That is the best an easiest to understand description of ornaments I have ever seen. I will refer to this often.
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Thanks so much. That is the best an easiest to understand description of ornaments I have ever seen. I will refer to this often.
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Pat
You explain things so well! All the things you wonder about but end up ignoring. I may yet become an accomplished musician, Thanks
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You explain things so well! All the things you wonder about but end up ignoring. I may yet become an accomplished musician, Thanks
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Dan
Thanks so much. I'm a Rock player undertaking my first Bach pieces. So helpful. That will take my fear of ornaments away. Thankyou
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Thanks so much. I'm a Rock player undertaking my first Bach pieces. So helpful. That will take my fear of ornaments away. Thankyou
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