"Sight-Reading & Harmony" is also a must-have for harpsichordists and organists, and in fact even for non keyboard musicians who would wish to train their harmony and counteroint understanding, provided they are not adverse to using a keyboard instrument to do so!
Hello Cory! Thank you for the video. I initially subscribed to the Well-Rounded Pianist membership because of my decision to take sightreading more seriously, and my wish to further my knowledge about harmony. I enjoyed watching the video and do that exercise along with you, even though I am not grade 8 level yet.
Thanks Cory for making these series on the book. Am doing daily one page of it and am now at grade 3/4. What I do not understand from your video what is the significance is for quickly seeing the interval distance between the outer parts. After all they are played with different hands. I would have understood if you pointed out the interval distance per hand separate as that steers choosing which finger per hand when progressing
Well there are tons of good reasons to focus primarily on the outer voices; fingering is not the main one, what he means is not so clear to me either to be franck… of course if the middle parts are crammed in a narrow space between bass and soprano, you shouldn't start spreading your hands like crazy, but why would you intend to do that in the first place?
Can’t remember a system of teaching students that a pianist described to me of having something to do with relating the spaces and lines of the sheet music to the keys on the keyboard? He said it was easy to read music and that his students picked it up quick? Anyone know what he was describing? Not sure if I described the technique correctly? He was in Fort Lauderdale if anyone is familiar.
I understand leading tone chords to be normal dim. triads (not dim. 7ths) like chord 3 in the example, which "leads" to the tonic chord. This is because a "leading tone" cadence is technically defined as a vii° - i. If you take away the 7th, then yes, that chord would technically be a secondary leading tone chord. But this is all just the crazing naming of things. You do have it right though, in that that chord "leads" to the dominant.
"Sight-Reading & Harmony" is also a must-have for harpsichordists and organists, and in fact even for non keyboard musicians who would wish to train their harmony and counteroint understanding, provided they are not adverse to using a keyboard instrument to do so!
Hello Cory!
Thank you for the video. I initially subscribed to the Well-Rounded Pianist membership because of my decision to take sightreading more seriously, and my wish to further my knowledge about harmony. I enjoyed watching the video and do that exercise along with you, even though I am not grade 8 level yet.
Merci. I'm in kindergarden, but this gave me an idea of what I have to do.
Interesting. But *HOW* does this help with sight reading at all?
Thanks Cory for making these series on the book. Am doing daily one page of it and am now at grade 3/4.
What I do not understand from your video what is the significance is for quickly seeing the interval distance between the outer parts. After all they are played with different hands. I would have understood if you pointed out the interval distance per hand separate as that steers choosing which finger per hand when progressing
Well there are tons of good reasons to focus primarily on the outer voices; fingering is not the main one, what he means is not so clear to me either to be franck… of course if the middle parts are crammed in a narrow space between bass and soprano, you shouldn't start spreading your hands like crazy, but why would you intend to do that in the first place?
Thanks
Can’t remember a system of teaching students that a pianist described to me of having something to do with relating the spaces and lines of the sheet music to the keys on the keyboard? He said it was easy to read music and that his students picked it up quick? Anyone know what he was describing? Not sure if I described the technique correctly? He was in Fort Lauderdale if anyone is familiar.
any luck?
@@SpontaneityJD Nope…he could get kids reading music really fast with his system
Would that happen to be a secondary leading tone chord in the first beat of measure 3?
I understand leading tone chords to be normal dim. triads (not dim. 7ths) like chord 3 in the example, which "leads" to the tonic chord. This is because a "leading tone" cadence is technically defined as a vii° - i. If you take away the 7th, then yes, that chord would technically be a secondary leading tone chord. But this is all just the crazing naming of things. You do have it right though, in that that chord "leads" to the dominant.