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Practice Journal: Etude Number 1

Practice Journal: Etude Number 1

The Kalmanovitch School of Approaching and not Avoiding the Particular and Often Quite Personal Problems that Precede Practicing the Viola

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In music, an étude (after the French “to study”) describes a kind of musical composition that ranges from a technical exercise to a fully developed musical composition. Either way, an étude is aimed at exploring a technical problem, and your performance of it is reflective of your will toward its resolution.

The names of the master teachers whose études…

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