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The Collaborative Piano Blog

The Collaborative Piano Blog

http://collaborativepiano.blogspot.com

This entertaining and informative classical music blog lists resources for the collaborative piano field as well as musical activities by Royal Conservatory of Music faculty member Christopher Foley.

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  • Lady Gaga Plays and Sings Paparazzi

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 20:39 in videos

    This is one very pleasant surprise: Lady Gaga is also an accomplished pianist, as this acoustic performance shows. Her piano transcription of the song shows harmonic imagination, played with a fine sense of pacing and note-perfect accuracy.Previously...

  • Collaborative Piano Studies at California State University, Fullerton

    Posted on Monday November 9th, 2009 at 19:40 in degree programs

    The Department of Music at California State University, Fullerton offers a concentration in Accompanying as part of its Bachelor of Music program in piano. The only documentation available online is the Keyboard Department page - for more information...

  • Building Musicians, Building Neural Pathways

    Posted on Sunday November 8th, 2009 at 20:05 in neuroscience, piano pedagogy

    When we play a musical instrument or sing, we are developing the capability of our brains. When we teach those skills to others, we are enabling those neural pathways in our students' brains. Brainstorm is a week-long series in the Toronto Star by Al...

  • The Collaborative Piano Blog is 4!

    Posted on Saturday November 7th, 2009 at 05:21

    On November 7, 2005, I took a massive leap of faith and started a brand-new blog about the art of the piano in ensemble, a field that at the time had almost no presence on the internet. I had no idea that four years later, the Collaborative Piano Blo...

  • How To Become An Accompanist?

    Posted on Thursday November 5th, 2009 at 11:10 in freelancing

    Ever wonder about the exact nature of the accompanist stereotype that caused pianists from Gerald Moore onwards to react so violently to the traditional image of the meek and docile assistant at the piano? A quick look at the entry on How To Become A...

  • A Visual Dichterliebe

    Posted on Wednesday November 4th, 2009 at 14:04 in photos, art song

    In order for the art song to survive in the coming years, the genre needs to find ways to re-imagine itself, to discover new ways of looking at the core repertoire. For one of his song recitals, Chad Smyser asked photographer Tasha Roth to take pictu...

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