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Friday, January 29, 2021

Color shift

 While on the phone with my daughter I listened to a recording she made of an etude. It is a very musical piece, but also part of famous collection of etudes used to study the instrument. (Charlier 2.) Anyway, at one point, after a particular phrase, I said wow, or "nice!] orsomething like that. She told me at the end that she had tried a particular musical effect at that exact moment, which she described as a "color shift." I didn't know quite what it was, but I heard it very distinctly as being a striking effect. It was almost supernatural. 

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