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What should I play right now?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

How can you play a piece for more than a month and still find it interesting?

How ya doing, buddy?

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What is he differewnce and what makes a song a cretain 'type' of that music?

What it boils down to is structure, style and the instruments invovled. A symphony is a sonata for orchestra. A concerto is a sonata for orchestra and soloist. A quartet is a sonata for 4 musicians, etc.

About structure, take a waltz for example. It has 3/4 time signature and the theme is 8 measures long. The first 8 measures of a waltz is always the theme. A mazurka (a kind of Polish dance) is like a waltz only the theme is 4 measures long and it has a certain rhythm usually that it would be hard for me to explain here.

Style would be how you would classify a nocturne, for example. It's a nocturne because of how it sounds, not because of who's playing it or what the structure is (although they do typically have a definite structure, the structure is so common that it alone can't classify a piece as being a nocturne).

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Out of curiousity, what is the difference between an etude/study and a virtuoso study?

If any piece is called a "virtuoso study", thats kind of bombastic and probably the editor's doing and not the composer. As far as the difference goes, a virtuoso etude would just be an etude that would take a virtuoso (someone who has mastered the instrument) to play. Basically something that separates the men from the boys.

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Not as hard as you think. Why don't you give it a try?

I was speaking idiomatically.

It depends. It's not unheard of. Especially if he is playing with a chamber ensemble.

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Originally Posted by Chameleon

Fair enough. What about in a competition? Would adjudicators deduct marks from you for having sheet music there? I was always lead to believe that looking at sheet music was a sign of lack of preparation on the pianist's behalf.

The music is all that matters. If you play well, I don't see why it would matter. Generally, if you don't know the piece, you won't play it well, though.

Originally Posted by pianist

thanks, i did played it through a few times....
but dunno if my teacher will let me learn it so i want to know how difficult this piece is, and if it's possible for me to ask him to teach me this piece.
So any ideas or what grade you would place this piece (chopin Nocturne op48 no.1) in?

I've never really understood the grading system. If you've got big hands, it shouldn't be a problem for you. If not, hopefully you're good at jumps and broken chords.

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They're both the same. Mendelssohn's famous Rondo Capriccioso starts with an andante section.

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Well, I hate Schumann, so I'm gonna ignore that one. Definitely not the nocturne. Probably the Rondo is the most difficult to play well (pay special attention to the articulation).

Jam it back in, in the dark.

If you're deciding between Schumann and anything else, choose anything else.

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I'm not Mozart's biggest fan, but he is leaps and bounds better than Schumann.

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Oh, c'mon. There's gotta be someone worse than Schumann.

I live close by Manhattan. By port authority, there is this bum I guess or maybe just a crazy guy, but he has a drum set and he just sits there playing nonsense in the most unenthusiastic way imaginable. That guy is probably worse than Schumann.

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