by Juan Rezzuto | Oct 1, 2021 | Composition, Harmony, WKMT
The Baroque period and the treatment of dissonances explained. For piano tutors, it is pretty tricky to explain and teach a Fugue of J.S. Bach or two-voice invention without going through a bit of the theory first. They are pieces in which not the piano technique is...
by Juan Rezzuto | Apr 9, 2021 | Composition, Harmony, Musical Analysis, WKMT
The essential teaching behind Counterpoint Counterpoint First Species Counterpoint Second Species For all piano students out there who are studying Counterpoint as part of your piano syllabus and you don’t know why you should spend time with this subject...
by Juan Rezzuto | Mar 13, 2020 | Composition, Harmony, Keyboard Harmony, Music Theory, Musical Analysis, WKMT
How to start a melody? This question is the most common among composition students. How to write a melody? Do we need inspiration? Does it come naturally, or do we need to be gifted melodic writers to do it? The answer is, no. The melody is by far the most ubiquitous...
by Juan Rezzuto | Dec 21, 2019 | Composition, Harmony, Keyboard Harmony, Musical Analysis, WKMT
The four options of continuation in Musical Composition Here we share with you all a summary of a great article recently published on WKMT Blog and written by Gisela Paterno about music analysis. One of the essential parts in any piano student performance is the...
by Juan Rezzuto | Aug 27, 2019 | Composition, Harmony, Keyboard Harmony, WKMT
What does it take to become a composer? Gisela Paterno, our colleague at WKMT London Piano Studio, has recently written an article published on the blog. This time, she talks about Composition. She has a degree in Music Composition by the Argentinian National...
by Juan Rezzuto | Mar 22, 2019 | Composition, Harmony, Keyboard Harmony, Musical Analysis, WKMT
Learning Keyboard Harmony – Part I Learning Keyboard Harmony – Part II Learning Keyboard Harmony – Part III Western Classical and modern music is basically structured upon chords. Even if you don’t know how to play an instrument, we can...
