Category: Music Life
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Writer’s Block for Composers — A Possible Way to Handle It
Buckle up people, this is a tough one. Disclaimer: I am not trained in any form of psychoanalysis, coaching, guiding or mentoring. This is my process, what I have learned by working with such professionals over the years. I am sharing my own process and experience. This has worked for me. The following passage was…
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How Parkour helped me overcome my Creative Block
What does writing music and feeling (notice how I said “feeling” and not “having”) blocked creatively have to do with parkour??? Well…!
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Same-Same-Different Workshop Review
Of Same – Same – Different Workshop for flutists The Workshop What an AMAZING workshop! Thank you to everyone that took part and contributed to our music making. I organised an online workshop for flutists in May 2020. I sent the participants my piece Fantasie Impromptu-ish and asked them to familiarise themselves with at least…
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Music and other Art Forms
A little long something I wrote years ago. The people I am referring to there have now changed their approach, and maybe I have as well… Anyway, based on true stories Should a Musician explore and practice other art forms or must he/she only use music knowledge to interpret the notes on paper into music… or…
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Finding the way with Chopin
Even though I haven’t studied music therapy in depth, I have spent time in lectures, reading, researching and discussing about it. It’s undeniable that music therapy can heal a person. But how exactly does it do that? What does the therapist want to achieve by the end of a course of sessions? ”If the point…
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On traditional music
Pick a language you know completely nothing about. Imagine you are learning how to say a ‘bad word’ or a phrase like ‘I love you’ in that other language. You can also make it up. We arrange letters in logical positions to form words. The letters are the body of the word. Every person, no…
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Music and Mathematics
Imagine – Think – Reason I was taking a course on how to teach music to adults (why?!) and when we would talk about lesson plans, the teacher emphasised that we had to incorporate language, maths and ICT concepts and activities in the lessons. We discussed about the connection on music and maths and everyone…
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The Habit of Feeling Comfortable
The habit of feeling comfortable During physical exercise, there comes a point where we just want to stop because we decide that we had enough and we are tired. Then we look at the time and we see that we have been exercising for half the time we know we can. At some point we…
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Patience through Practice
To value and devote time to recap. Go through what you have learnt so far and practice them on a beginners level. Practice slow. Playing or reading about what you already know as long as the intention is to move forward. You might realise something new, build muscle memory and brain memory, and my favourite, to make new…
Rania Chrysostomou 