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Playing Love: a musal encounter in Tornatore’s The Legend of 1900
Playing Love: a musal encounter in Tornatore’s The Legend of 1900

The camera slowly tilts from the audio engineer counting off the recording, to an overhead shot of 1900’s hands on the piano, running up and down the keys in a blazing improvised cadenza. (…)

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Sjaak DoumaNovember 5, 2025Comment
Explorations in Ternary Form: a conversation with Pietro Beltrani
Explorations in Ternary Form: a conversation with Pietro Beltrani

In 2022, Pietro released Textures, an album containing 4 original preludes that he wrote between 2016 and 2021. These miniatures exhibit a fascinating breadth of musical influence, craftily curating (…)

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Sjaak DoumaMarch 13, 2023Comment
A Flourish of Sound: Esbjörn Svensson's Alternating Pedal Points
A Flourish of Sound: Esbjörn Svensson's Alternating Pedal Points

A piano teacher of mine once theorized that sound waves produced by Chopin in the 19th century must still be traveling somewhere through space. (…)

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Sjaak DoumaJanuary 23, 2023Comment
The Descending 7-6: Deciphering Loney Dear’s Love for a Baroque Sequence
The Descending 7-6: Deciphering Loney Dear’s Love for a Baroque Sequence

Emil’s face playfully lights up after being challenged to play the first Goldberg Variation a half step lower than its original key, prompting a choppy but impressive rendition in Gb (…)

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Sjaak DoumaSeptember 10, 2022 Comment
André Previn's Tonal Excursions
André Previn's Tonal Excursions

In its musical approach, André Previn’s 1967 solo piano record All Alone bears comparison to Keith Jarrett’s The Melody at Night, with You in more ways than one. (…)

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Sjaak DoumaJuly 26, 2022 Comments
A Modern Approach to Chopin's Augmented Modulations
A Modern Approach to Chopin's Augmented Modulations

Admittedly, my first brush with augmented chords initially reached the pinnacle of about three half-baked assumptions in regard to their use. You either used them to sound (…)

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Sjaak DoumaJuly 16, 2022Comment

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