{"id":15006,"date":"2020-12-24T10:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-12-24T15:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/?p=15006"},"modified":"2020-12-24T02:38:39","modified_gmt":"2020-12-24T07:38:39","slug":"poco-piano-sounds-in-the-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/2020\/12\/24\/poco-piano-sounds-in-the-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"poco piano: sounds in the reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"648\" height=\"365\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iVxDKXig-yg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been home for winter break and something I&#8217;ve observed a few things: 1. the fridge is awfully close to the piano (10 steps). 2. my piano&#8217;s upper register is so very out of tune 3. the couch is always more appealing than the piano bench 4. my piano has a very shiny varnish (compared to all of the university&#8217;s pianos). When I practice, I&#8217;ve been looking at the reflection of my hands rather than my actual hands. Since I&#8217;m preparing to play this concerto (Rach 2) in January, I&#8217;ve been thinking a lot about how the melody fits and memorizing the piece so working on this video really helped with that.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to what the video might suggest, I think that the Solo piano part (B&amp;W) is actually really lush and colorful. It has beautiful harmonies that blending parsimoniously and actually enhances the simple melody through metric displacement. The solo part is calm but almost acts like a motor, pushing the melody along. It&#8217;s rather like a swan&#8217;s paddling feet, aiding and propelling it along; the melody gliding gracefully above.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been home for winter break and something I&#8217;ve observed a few things: 1. the fridge is awfully close to the piano (10 steps). 2. my piano&#8217;s upper register is so very out of tune 3. the couch is always more appealing than the piano bench 4. my piano has a very shiny varnish (compared [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2225,"featured_media":13999,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15006"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15007,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15006\/revisions\/15007"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/13999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15006"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15006"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artsatmichigan.umich.edu\/ink\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15006"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}