by Gisela Paterno | Oct 25, 2017 | Musical Analysis
Sonata form: Transition function Sonata form: Transition function The sonata form is Classical Music’s most paradigmatic form. It took its most achieved shape during the unfolding of the 18th century and its development and establishment involved three of the...
by Gisela Paterno | Oct 20, 2017 | ABRSM, Piano, Sight-Reading
An important part of the preparation of every musician (whether to be an interpreter or composer), is the one that focuses on the development of their perceptual capacities. All the knowledge that cement the musical development must be complemented with the perceptive...
by Gisela Paterno | Oct 2, 2017 | Music History
A brief story of European tuning Today’s tuning is so common that we usually give it for granted, but this specific number was coined for the first time by a German physicist, Johann Heinrich Scheibler in 1834. This scientist created a tuning device, the...
by Gisela Paterno | Oct 2, 2017 | Composition
As you may know, our brain processes are governed distinctively by our right and left hemispheres. The right hemisphere is associated with creative skills, emotion, intuition and art; while the left side of our brains is associated with logic (including Math),...