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Speaking and Understanding the Language of Other Universes
August 23, 2005 / By
Speaking and Understanding the Language of Other Universes

The task of learning a new work involves not only committing notes to fingers in order to execute them with fluency, but conveying those notes in a way that is so natural and idiomatic that the listener will hear not the language but the meaning of the music.