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Hommage pour le toumbeau de Debussy – an intense work about life and death (video)
The genesis of Hommage pour le tombeau de Debussy is to be found in the death of Claude Debussy, when Henri Prunierers, editor of the Parisian music journal "Le Revue Musicale", asked numerous composers among them Stravinsky, Satie, Bartok and Falla to compose...
How melodies are composed (part 2) (video)
In this "Music Talks" I expand one of the ideas I mentioned on our first video, about how melodies are composed (watch it at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FSevH-nSTvQ). On the first video, I focused on "universal" features that lead to the creation of melodies, such...
Andante op. 241 no 18, by Carulli: an easy and beautiful piece (video)
Ferdinando Carulli's Andante Opus 241 n. 18 is an easy piece of music, accessible to beginner guitarrists, and also very beautiful. I have a special relation to it, as it was the very first piece I playied in front of an audience, in a student concert of the music...
Music Talks… what’s the “classical” guitar (video)
What is the classical guitar? Why is it called so? Because it is "classical", is it a different instrument from a guitar? Get answers to those questions and also know a little bit about the classical guitar and its curiosities: did you know it used strings made of gut...
