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January 11, 2008 at 2:40 pm #82392carl-swansonParticipant
Hi everyone- My article on using etudes to build technique just came out in the latest issue of the Harp Column. I’m just curious to know what your own experience is with using etudes either to learn technique yourself or to teach it. What etudes have you used to learn/teach technique? What do you like or not like about them? What do you feel you got out of them? Any other thoughts?
January 11, 2008 at 3:46 pm #82393unknown-userParticipantHi Carl,
January 11, 2008 at 6:08 pm #82394carl-swansonParticipantIt’s nice to hear that you’ve gotten such a benefit from using etudes. I hope the article inspires more people to start using them.
January 11, 2008 at 7:45 pm #82395unknown-userParticipantAside from Salzedo’s Etudes, I have not found any sufficiently musically rewarding to be worth the precious practice time and be useful, though I might use Bochsa’s most advanced set if they fit my repertoire better. Pianists are awfully lucky to have Chopin and Debussy and so many other composers, but then, those are concert pieces more than etudes, perhaps. We do have repertoire that works well as etudes, such as Caplet’s Divertissement a la Francaise, the Faure Impromptu, concertos,
January 11, 2008 at 9:08 pm #82396carl-swansonParticipantI think etudes are most useful at the beginner and intermediate stages. But even at the advanced stage, etudes can give you stamina for very advanced repertoire.
January 13, 2008 at 3:51 am #82397patricia-jaegerMemberCynthia, I agree that Pozzoli Intermediate Etudes are very musical, and
January 13, 2008 at 7:40 am #82398carl-swansonParticipantPatricia- I’ll have to take a good look at those Pozzoli etudes. I’m really not all that familiar with them. I learned one that I occasionally use on recitals. It was recorded by Lily Laskine and I liked it so much I learned it myself. But I guess there are others too that are worth looking at.
January 14, 2008 at 2:07 am #82399Elizabeth Volpé BlighParticipantCarl, I enjoyed your article in Harp Column, and it was great to have the examples shown as well. Do you know the Six Etudes by Schmidt? The last one is fantastic for stabilizing the wrist and placing correctly, and also works as a concert piece.
January 14, 2008 at 4:01 am #82400frances-duffyParticipantHi Carl!
January 14, 2008 at 4:11 am #82401carl-swansonParticipantFrances- I LOVE hearing when a teacher uses etudes! I hope you get to read the article, and if you are not familiar with the Bochsa 40 easy etudes, I’d really recommend you take a look at them.
January 14, 2008 at 4:12 am #82402carl-swansonParticipantElizabeth- I’ve never looked at the Schmidt etudes. I always assumed that they were concert etudes. I believe they were edited by Pierre Jamet. I’ll have to take a look at them.
January 17, 2008 at 8:24 pm #82403frances-duffyParticipantThanks Carl.
January 17, 2008 at 11:16 pm #82404Kathleen ClarkParticipantOoops, I thought I’d looked for an Etude thread but somehow missed it. So I have copied my experience into this thread. My questions are a lot like Carl’s except I am approaching it from the student’s point of view, so I’ve left them in. I want to thank Trayce for the info that four of the Labarre etudes were at one time on a UK exam syllabus.
The only thing I want to add at the moment is that my teacher has me play them deliberately and slow, concentrating on tone. He is such a perfectionist. If just one finger is off volume or tone-wise he has me work on it until it is brought into line with all the others. Picky, picky, picky, but that’s why I pay him the big bucks.
My earlier post on another thread…
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In response to Carl’s wonderful article about
etudes in the current issue of Harp Column magazineJanuary 17, 2008 at 11:40 pm #82405Kathleen ClarkParticipantI am glad someone has mentioned Hasselmans “La
Source” as it is one of my favorite pieces of harp music and was the
first “big” piece I memorized. I think I shall spend the rest
of my harp life trying to play each note perfectly, which means I don’t
play it very fast.The foregoing reminds me of something that happened when I
was warming up with it before my lesson at the harp center one day. A
well-known professional harpist who was in the store commented to me
after I was done that she had had to learn “La Source” in university and just
couldn’t get into it and like it because (and this is a direct quote)January 18, 2008 at 12:34 am #82406carl-swansonParticipantIsn’t that bizarre that the Annie Louise Davids edition leaves out a page??? What was she thinking?
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