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- #24: Venting in Two-Part Inventions
Is it possible to make beautiful music with just two intertwining melodies? Bach did. Can I?
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe36 min - IOTL Short #5: Just the Piano, Ma'am
It's Friday, so in honor of Joe Friday from Dragnet I give you these three unrelated (both to each other and the TV show) improvisations. Back next week with a full episode...
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe16 min - IOTL Short #4: Fake News!
...Another short, wisp of an episode to fill in the gaps between the long, meandering yet highly focused main episodes...
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe6 min - #23: Originality vs. Perfection—Pick Your Poison
You can create nearly perfectly executed music in this world—as long as it’s not original.
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe30 min - "#22-Improvising Classical Music: Is That a Thing?"
Back in the day, the great classical composers were brilliant improvisers. Are they still? Is it even possible?
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe39 min - IOTL Shorts #3: Organized Chaos/Disorganized Structure
Yet another mini-bonus episode, which can only mean one thing: I'm working on a BIG episode. Until then...Enjoy!
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe6 min - #21: A Minimal Take on Minimalism
To be brief: I never much cared for minimalism until I minimally did.
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe15 min - #20: Giant Steps, Small Thinking
In which I do battle with the almost perfect symmetry in John Coltrane’s “Giant Steps” to try to create something a little messy and asymmetrical.
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe27 min - IOTL Shorts #2: Monday, July 29, 2019
Another short episode for your listening pleasure while I work assiduously on two full episodes that are driving me crazy. (Hopefully, they won't drive you crazy.)
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe5 min - IOTL Shorts #1: Saturday, July 27, 2019
This episode is the first (possibly the last) in a series of short daily, or every-other-daily, or even less frequent "podisodes" to go with your morning coffee or afternoon tea or evening drink or right before bed.
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Get full access to Musically Novel at petersaltzman.substack.com/subscribe4 min
About Improvisations on The Ledge
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In "Improvisations on the Ledge," award-winning composer-pianist Peter Saltzman searches for universal truths by stumbling upon them—both with words and music. The basic premise is simple: he…
improvises on the piano, then talks about what the music tells him. Then makes music about what the talking tells him. Then...well, it goes on like this. Droll, funny, dramatic, musical, short.
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