individual online courses with Maestro Ennio Nicotra. To give everyone the opportunity to acquire the bases for developing a correct technique according to the Musin method, can be planned.
The course consists in 5 individual sessions of 50 min each and is aimed at those students who wish to master or refine the basics of gestural language.
The course - fee 320 euros - is individual and can start at any time according to the student's needs.
During the 5 sessions the following topics will be analyzed:
- The position of the arm
- The staccato
- Preparatory exercises for the staccato
- Preparatory exercises for the pattern of the staccato
- Patterns for staccato
- The concept of the imaginary surface
- Patterns in quick time
- Asymmetrical time patterns
The "Legato"
- Exercises for the developing the gestures for the legato
- the patterns for legato
- Popular Incorrect patterns
- Giving the downbeat or the attack
Basic principle of the initial attack:
- upwards and downwards movement
- Phases of the attack
- Transmission of the exact time with which to start
- Initial attack and dynamics
- Realization of the initial attack
- Picking up the sound and circular gesture
- Attack on a triplet rhythm
- The anacrusis attack
- The held-back attack.
The “sforzato”
- The upwards attack or curving upwards gesture
- The prolonged attack
- The split or stressed attack
- Conducting in especially slow time.
Rhythmic figurations
- Syncopations
- Caesura
- changing of time
- changing of dynamics
- changing from one pattern to another
- Caesura and sudden changing of dynamics
- Changing from a slower to a quicker tempo
- Changing from one pattern to another
- Pauses
- Melody and phrasing
- Preparatory exercises to demonstrate the climax of a melody or a phrase
- The left hand
- The baton and his three main positions
English, Russian, Italian spoken. Single consultation 50 min 100 euros