Comments on: Musical analysis: a musical strategy http://www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/blog/musical-analysis-a-musical-strategy-670 Official website of pianist Pierre-Arnaud Dablemont Thu, 02 Feb 2012 07:23:39 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Michael P. Scott http://www.pierre-arnaud-dablemont.com/blog/musical-analysis-a-musical-strategy-670#comment-2584 Michael P. Scott Thu, 14 Jan 2010 04:16:07 +0000 #comment-2584 Analysis is only as good or helpful as the expertise of the analyzer. In the ham-handed hands of a rank amateur such as myself, analysis is meaningless. In the hands of an expert -- especially one who is able to explicate his her "take" on a particular work -- it's magic. There's a website devoted to master classes. I love it because the truly great pianists are able, it seems to me, to explain the complexity of any -- ANY -- work in plain language. Analysis is only as good or helpful as the expertise of the analyzer. In the ham-handed hands of a rank amateur such as myself, analysis is meaningless.

In the hands of an expert — especially one who is able to explicate his her “take” on a particular work — it’s magic. There’s a website devoted to master classes. I love it because the truly great pianists are able, it seems to me, to explain the complexity of any — ANY — work in plain language.

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