Tips on developing musicality, musicianship 음악성의 발달을 위한 팁

음악성이 없으면 음악도 없다. Without musicality, there's no music.

곡의 테크닉이 갖춰지면 음악이 말을 건다. The music speaks to you once you grasp the technique.

음악성은 감정feeling, 아이디어, 등등을 말한다.

Rather than expressing emotions, it's more like feelings, of how the music sheet can be expressed with life.

There is some identity to the music that can be expressed once you've read the music. It is how you embody the soul of the music that determines your musicality.

Music is storytelling. You will use different tones and rhythms to express the story.

 

Imagine who you're playing to, what you want to show/reveal to them about the music you enjoy.

"before (or while) you want to build musicianship, you MUST have a good technical base. Afterall, you might just be the most expressive person on the planet, but if you can't play well enough to play in tune or keep a good tone, your musicianship won't be of any use. Then again, if you can play perfectly from a technical aspect but can't express yourself, then you're just playing a glorified etude, a bunch of technical feats with no other purpose than to show you've practiced for hundreds of hours. So, first you should practice hard and develop a good technique. Secondly, on working on musicianship, you should spend a chunk of time just sitting the violin down and thinking "How do I want this to sound". Consider what kind of emotion you are trying to put across, use an adjective to describe that phrase of music. And, although I don't like this because sometimes it creates a fake emotion, you may want to think about how you want to achieve this emotion, faster bow? more vibrato? rubato? portamento shifts? It's up to you. But be careful to keep it in good taste. Don't play Bach like Brahms, or vice versa.

After you have a good musical interpretation of what you're playing, pick up your violin and try to do that. Again, this should be after you've got the piece technically adept. Soon, you'll be expressing your emotion and musicality through your playing with ease."

"I was always trying to discern some kind of "emotion" in the music I was playing, and I came to realize that this is far too complex and mental. Instead, look for the on-the-surface "feelings" in the music. For example: bouncing, hiccuping, pleading, floating, sighing, mocking, laughing, stopping, changing direction, hurrying, lolly-gagging, etc.

If you can put character into each little "feeling," and you are playing a well-composed piece, those feelings may possibly add up to an "emotion," but don't try to project an emotion onto the music. Keep it in the moment"

 

Feel the music with the air

 

Melody leads the soul of the music, the rest is mere accompanyment to the music. So, sing the melody.

Express thunder, snow, rain, your anger, your fear, your sympathy, your sorrow, your madness; drive yourself with music.

Keep an archive of memories from the past, scenes that you can recall; bring them forth into your music.

Keep creating deviations in your music.

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Developing musicality (violinist.com)

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