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“The piano keys are black and white but they sound like a million colors in your mind.”
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One of Chopin's idyllic preludes. 1...2...3...4...5...6! Sheet(p. 8): https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/ Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
Chopin's reflection on death. Listen to the left hand hammering out minor chords, chromatically dropping. Sheet(p. 5): https://musopen.org/music/82-preludes-op-28/ Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
The prelude series continues with not one, but TWO preludes from Chopin's Opus 28. We discuss #4 and #7, Chopin's interesting paramour George Sand, and the intersection between death and 50 Shades of Gray. Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
The OG prelude. May this offer a moment of meditation to ponder the great things to come in 2021. Sheets(p. 4-5): https://musopen.org/music/43466-the-well-tempered-clavier-book-i-bwv-846-869/ Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
Piano Rhapsody is back with weekly episodes in 2021! This is the first episode in a series of preludes, starting with the infamous "Prelude in C Major" by Bach. We'll discuss the importance of the Well Tempered Clavier, modulation, and how to build a C Major chord. Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com
(Please excuse the soft audio in the first episode. This problem was fixed in future episodes.) Welcome to Piano Rhapsody, an amateur pianist’s journey with the intended goal of performing Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue one day. Join the ride as we dissect one piece every week, learning and building our classical appreciation from the ground up. Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com
Here come the Taiwanese garbage trucks! See if you can identify the Rondo form of ABACA while you listen. Sheets: https://musopen.org/music/8658-bagatelle-no-25-fur-elise-woo-59/ Twitter: @PianoRhapsody Email: pianorhapsodypodcast@gmail.com Find PianoRhapsody on SoundCloud for this recording and more!
Since the podcast released several weeks early, I wanted to drop a holiday episode to help fill the gap. In this special episode we will briefly discuss some of the foundations of jazz music and listen to my recording of "Christmas Time is Here" by Vince Guaraldi of A Charlie Brown Christmas fame. Have a great holiday season and a happy new year! Piano Rhapsody will return 1/5/21 for its original weekly release plan.
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