Word: solfeggio
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Like Evans, Mehldau prefers the trio format, performing last week at Scullers with bassist Larry Grenadier and drummer Jorge Rossy. A so-called piano intellectual, Mehldau lived up to his reputation, often quoting Bach-not only Johannes Sebastian, but Carl Philip Emanuel, whose "Solfeggio in C minor" was heard in skeletal form during one improvisation...
...movie sound track is so wholesome and inspirational that it makes even Mary Poppins, its rival bestseller sound racy. The children, the nuns, and of course Julie Andrews sing Richard Rodgers and late Oscar Hammerstein's last joint score like angels as they extol steeple bells cuckoo clocks, solfeggio, edelweiss...
Thomas (1811-96) wrote Mignon in 1866. He, born at Metz, was a learned as well as smart composer. At 4, he knew his solfeggio; at 17, he was admitted to the Paris Conservatory of Music; at 21, he won the Conservatory's Prix de Rome, and went there at the French government's expense. Three years' study in Rome prepared him to compose a laudable requiem mass and several popular operas...
School of Music--Peter C. Lutkin, Dean. Courses in Public School Music and Piano, Normal Methods with demonstration classes. Private instruction in Piano, Voice, Organ, Violin, Cello; class instruction in Harmony, Musical Analysis, Ear-Training, Solfeggio...
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