Compositeurs

OUZOUNOFF Alexandre

Alexandre Ouzounoff began playing the piano at the age of 6 and the transverse flute at 13, but it was with the bassoon that he found a way to live […]

TCHAÏKOVSKY Piotr Ilitch

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky was a Russian composer of the Romantic period, born on 25 April 1840 in Votkinsk and died on 25 October 1893 in St Petersburg. An eclectic composer, […]

HEUTE Lisa

Lisa Heute is an artist involved in musical creation as a composer and accordionist. She completed a Master’s degree in composition at the CNSMD in Lyon, and in accordion at […]

PETROSSIAN Michel

Michel Petrossian was attracted by the world of art since his childhood, starting by painting and studying the guitar and cello, and turning quickly to composing his own music. He […]

MODARRESIFAR Farnaz

Franco-Iranian composer, santurist and improviser born in 1989 in Teheran (Iran).Immersed in Western classical music and traditional Persian music, Farnaz Modarresifar trained at the National Conservatory and the University of […]

HERSANT Philippe

Philippe Hersant was born in Rome in 1948. He currently lives and works in Paris. Following his musical studies at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique de Paris, where he […]

SUESSE Dana

Nadine Dana Suesse was born in Kansas City, Missouri, on December 3, 1909. She passed away on October 16, 1987.Dana was 9 when she gave her first concert, and she […]

PENARD Olivier

Olivier Penard, born in 1974, discovered music through the cinema. His catalog, written mainly by self-taught composers, carries with it the need for narration, the evocation of images and the […]

LELOUP Samuel

Samuel Leloup is a French composer, violinist and orchestrator. Holder of a master’s degree in violin as well as prizes for harmony, orchestration and film music composition, he performs regularly […]

ROLLAND Grégoire

Composer and organist Grégoire Rolland holds a Master’s degree in composition (harmony, counterpoint, fugue), a prize for analysis, a Master’s degree in organ and a prize for orchestration from the […]

Score
Le Piano Symétrique (volumes 1, 2, 3 & 4)
REIBEL Guy
Type: Score
Instrument: piano, Solos
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Pedagogy
Le Piano Symétrique (volumes 1 ,2 & 3)
Type: Pedagogy
Instrument: Solos, piano
The piano, a symmetrical body of sound a new look at the instrument The piano is the benchmark instrument for musicians. With its perfect mechanics, exact tuning, melodic and harmonic interplay, the ability to play every conceivable chord, and almost infinite range, it is a perfect instrument, the culmination of hundreds of years of evolution, for which countless works have been written, culminating in the 19th century and a prodigious progression in virtuosity. The instrument has conquered the planet, and is universally used in all musical genres. Its tempered keyboard seems to fix the musical scale forever, bringing music to a kind of “terminus”. What’s more, its keyboard configuration is totally adapted to tonal music, and since the twentieth century, composers have had to trick their way out of tonal language.

I propose an approach in which we strive to forget the glorious history of the piano, its repertoire and all the playing habits that are linked to its habitual practice. A vast program, undertaken with modesty but conviction. Indeed, if we forget everything and look at this instrument like a Martian accidentally landing on Earth, it presents itself as a body of sound offering visual symmetry starting from the center (C – D ), with white keys regularly arranged on both sides, but perfect symmetry in the succession of white and black keys on either side of this center. If, on the other hand, we observe that our two hands placed flat on a table are also symmetrical, with the two thumbs facing each other, the first idea is not to set up a scale with both hands playing in parallel (the left hand linking the sounds starting with the little finger, the right with the thumb), as this way of playing is less spontaneous than playing in mirror, with both hands using the same fingering. If you apply this symmetrical playing style to both hands, the playing is much more natural and easier for a beginner, and produces musical results that may be disconcerting at first, but are astonishingly rich, eliminating the many clichés, and discover a wide variety of melodic and harmonic modes developed in contemporary music since Debussy and Messiaen, in particular the chromatic mode, the tonal scale, mode 2, the acoustic mode and all the more well-known plainchant modes (D, E, F, G, A). The door is open to new adventures with very direct access. This is the experiment conducted at the École de Musique de Colomiers with Marc Jamond, Director, teachers Catherine Gérin, Pascale Monteil, Ruth Atienza Platon and their students, to whom this series of notebooks is dedicated.
Guy Reibel
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