Archive for November 2016
Classical Female Composers: Four awesome and underrated women
This week felt like an appropriate time to talk about Classical female composers. Since Western music is historically dominated by men, we generally just talk about famous Classical men.
Read MoreThe Health Benefits of Mozart: An Exploration of Science
In today’s episode, I want to talk about the health benefits of Mozart specifically – not Haydn, or Beethoven, or Bach, or any of those guys. Only the health benefits of Mozart.
Read MoreThe Best of Schubert: A tour through his greatest compositions
In today’s video, we’ll be talking about the best of Schubert. He lived a really short and interesting life (as we talked about in a previous video), and produced an epic amount of music for such a short amount of time.
Read MoreMy Favorite Grade 1 Piano Pieces: PianoTV video
9 Today’s video is a quick compilation of my favorite grade 1 piano pieces. I play through some short clips of various grade 1 songs in the RCM syllabus, and show what books the music comes from. I’ve done a video on my favorite grade 1 books, and some of these books are included in…
Read MoreA Brief History of Franz Schubert, the Man With a Purpose
In today’s episode of PianoTV, we’ll be talking about the history of Franz Schubert. This video has been requested a lot lately, as well as analyses of his works, so I figured today’s as good a day as any.
Read MorePiano Exercises: 200 Short Canons for Hand Independence
Hi, and welcome to another episode of PianoTV. Today we’re going to look at some piano exercises for hand independence, using Konrad Kunz’s 200 short canons for fodder.
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