Boot Camp – Fucking Things Up, November 21. I have often been told by previous music teachers, “You should learn a piece from the end to beginning, and not form the beginning to end. That way, you don’t become so familiar with only the beginning of the piece and you understand the complexities of the Read More
Boot Camp – November 7 The German-Swiss poet Hermann Hesse once wrote, “Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, whoever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.” I have always had a Read More
I struggled trying to decide on what object to write this week’s probe. I initially was going to write about a very specific and concrete object with an equally specific purpose, such as a toothbrush, but I found myself continually coming back to thoughts of much more abstract and complicated things. Perhaps I wanted a Read More
For this week’s probe, I’ve decided to look at the printed manuscript of Johann Sebastian Bach’s “Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin Solo,” written around 1720. One main contributing factor to its “messiness” is that nobody really knows when these pieces were composed, and there is little detailed information given on the manuscripts. The incomprehensibility Read More