En blanc et noir
EN BLANC ET NOIR is about piano improvisation and composition in BAROQUE, CLASSICAL and ROMANTIC styles and especially on PARTIMENTO practice and methods. On my channel you’ll find a mixture of TUTORIALS, VIDEO ESSAYS and PERFORMANCES related to those topics.
My name is Michael Koch and I’m a music theory and eartraining/listening lecturer at Musikhochschule Detmold, Germany.
I do as well private lessons in GERMAN and ENGLISH in time zones all over the world. I provide a professional training based on up-to-date-scholarship, inovative methodolgy and reflected, sensitive pedagogical considerations. My teaching includes a constant supply of instructive materials, exercises and Partimenti.
You can reach me out on:
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My page on academia.edu
https://folkwang-hochschule.academia.edu/MichaelKoch
A Chord That Sounds Atonal - But Isn't
More Modulation Loops
Prelude-Exercises on Secondary Dominants Coupled With Motifs
Infinite Modulation Loop
Challenge your Musicianship - Exercises on Memorization Transposition and Modulation
10 Favourite Takes of 5 Years on Youtube
Compose / Improvise with Secondary Dominants: Voicing, Sequences, Motivic Design
...Ear Candy
Scriabin Playing By The Rules: Analysis of Prelude Op. 11, 1
Methodical Composition on Rule of the Octave Progressions
Secondary Dominants and Rule of the Octave Modularity. Ep. 1 (7-1's)
8-Bar Phrases Based on the Rule of the Octave
4 Recipes to Improve Your Rule of the Octave Skills
Preludes and Fugues on a Subject by Händel
Improv Fuges on a Simple Subject and Prelude Leftovers
How To: Improvising Fugue on a Subject by G.F. Händel
4 Romantic Partimenti in Minor Keys
Re-Composition / Stealin’ With Scope
What Chopin Piece is Hidden Behind This Composition?
Drilling that Cadence...
2 Modulating Preludes / Improv Exercises
Improvisation Exercises in 2 Levels of Complexity
5 Figuration Preludes but they get increasingly shorter
On Improvising / Composing Figuration Preludes: Partimenti and Exercises
Chromatic Cadenzas be like... / Breaking down a "Lead in"
What The Ger6+ Chord is Actually Good For...
How Chopin Approaches a Harmonic Climax / Chromatic Mediants / Ger6+
About: Permutation Fuge on 3 Subjects
Baroque Improvisation: On Figurative Patterns in Triple Meter
Another Cadenza to Mozart's C Minor Concerto... this time "classical"