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		<title>Digital Age</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Stone age; bronze age; iron age. Surely the next &#8216;age&#8217; to be recognised in human evolution is the &#8216;digital&#8217; age. As far as music is concerned, the digital age affords seemingly endless opportunities to artists who would never have been heard without the advances in internet technology. On YouTube, for example, there are videos of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mute Art</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Next to one of his own compositions on YouTube, Per-Olov Kindgren writes, &#8220;Ok, I&#8217;m doing it again. Telling my life with music. Sorry. If I was a writer/author, I would write a long story. Now I have to do this instead.&#8221; I say back to him, &#8220;maybe you would write a long story if you were [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Music and Human Beings</title>
		<description><![CDATA[For the last few days I&#8217;ve been transfixed by the videos of precocious young children playing piano music by Mozart, Haydn, Chopin, Debussy, etc, on YouTube. There are always comments under these videos remarking that the child in question is too young to understand such music, that there is a lack of expression, etc. But [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Film Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[It&#8217;s always interested me to notice that composers of film music have managed to help people tolerate dissonance in a way in which composers of concert music haven&#8217;t. In the case of film music, of course, there is always the film itself to distract someone&#8217;s ear from the music but, on the other hand, the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourforte.net/film-music.html</link>
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		<title>Songwriting and Composing</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Why is songwriting referred to as a &#8216;craft&#8217; and yet the composing of a sonata, a string quartet, a symphony or even a lied is called an &#8216;art&#8217;? There seems to be some implication that the former is simply a skill but that the latter has more to do with creativity and expression. But surely [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Key Sense</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was reading through some posts on the forum of UK Piano and there was a question from someone about the purpose of learning keys. My own pupils often ask me similar questions. And sometimes when I ask a pupil what key a piece of music is in they&#8217;ll reply by saying, for example, &#8220;two sharps&#8221;. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Artificial Divisions in Music</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve just been listening to a classical guitarist on YouTube, well I should say &#8220;a man playing music on a classical guitar&#8221;. His username is &#8216;AndanteLargo&#8217; if anyone wants to go and listen. He&#8217;s posted some wonderful videos of himself playing Bach and music by other classical composers &#8211; and they sound glorious &#8211; but [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourforte.net/artificial-divisions-in-music.html</link>
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		<title>What style of music?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What style of music should pupils be taught in private lessons and at school? I think it&#8217;s the aim of any teacher who enjoys classical music to foster an appreciation of it. But I also think a child (or adult) who likes and wants to be able to play pop music, for example, should be [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourforte.net/what-style-of-music.html</link>
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		<title>Private Music Teachers</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Should there be some control over who can (or cannot) set up as a private music teacher? I &#8216;inherit&#8217; a lot of pupils who&#8217;ve been so badly taught by &#8216;teachers&#8217; without any experience or qualifications that any musical ability that pupils may actually possess has been virtually ruined at the outset. I&#8217;m not saying that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.yourforte.net/private-music-teachers.html</link>
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		<title>Honesty</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Is pop music more honest than contemporary &#8217;serious&#8217; music in that people want to listen to it and buy it and, unlike a lot of contemporary classical music, doesn&#8217;t have to rely on subsidies and grants?I think if contemporary classical music were more accessible (in the sense that the lay person could enjoy it) then [...]]]></description>
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