Musical Artistry!

What is it?

Roy Sonne discusses and demonstrates

What is Musical Artistry?

Musical artistry is:

• Communicating

• Conveying moods

• Portraying feelings

• Creating beauty

• Projecting to an audience

• Finding the inner meaning of the music

• Producing a tone that speaks to the heart

• Using a palette of tone colors, like a painter

Musical Artistry begins with the printed page.

Musical Artistry means:

• giving the music style.

• giving the phrases shape

  and variety

• Conveying moods

  and emotions

• Using different colors

Musical Artistry is the meeting ground between technique and musical expression.

• As violinists we develop our violinistic resources to express the music.

• We practice scales and etudes to develop a whole vocabulary of bow strokes

  • Detache

  • Martele

  • Spiccato

  • Legato

Musical artistry means experimenting.

We experiment with:

• Dynamics: How loud shall we play?

• Tempo: How fast shall we play?

• The length of the notes: Shorter or longer?

• Fingerings

• Slides

• Bowings.

• Tone color.

These are just a few of the things that Musical Artistry can mean.

Can you think of others?

What does Musical Artistry mean to you?