Life, Love, and Everything In Between

Ah, Music

So recently i've come to realize that i have one month until my Grade 9 RCM test. For all you out there who don't know what that is, i will explain. RCM stands for Royal Conservatory of Music. Basically it is an organization that umm... charges people to take tests that they write. But its very prestigious (apparantly) and everyone has to do it for school and yada yada so on and so forth. The big problem with the conservatory is that they are so stuck in the the idea that the way it is written is the way it MUST be played, or else it is wrong. I can understand why they think that, and i except that they believe that, i just don't that's all. Why should the fact that i feel that the song should crescendo to a forte here make a huge diffrence. Okay i could see them being upset if i did a jazz swing version of one of Bach's preludes, but come on...
Anyway the true nature of this post is to rant about the one song that i am completely distraught and yet intriuged and even still in love with. Its Bach's Prelude and Fugue in C minor. The Prelude aspect is very fast, relativly hard, but its attainable. Every time i hear it, i pick something else out that i didn't hear before, and love it even more. (huh that rhymed) Its very fast and technical, by the end of the piece my fingers are burning, which is probably a bad thing but what they hey. The second part is the Fugue. Any musician out there knows what is wrong with a fugue, for all you non-musician folk i will explain. It is a God -awfull mix of about 4 parts going at once. One of the most technically challengeing pieces to learn. It is basically a round in 4 parts, played with two hands and one person. It is extremely mentally exausting. Problem is, I love it so much that i just have to learn it. The other songs pale in comparison, at least the ones that i'm learning. They go as follows: Fantasie in d minor; Mozart, June; Tchakovsky, Variations in d minor; kabalesky, and Bridge Over Troulbed Water; Simon.

posted by That Canadian Guy @ 10:34 p.m.