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A Turn For The Better

Piano music is full of ornaments, whether in the form of trills, mordents, figured basses, and so on. In many cases they're simply musical abbreviations to save composers time writing things out. That's certainly the case when it comes to "turns."

You might remember that Mozart's famous "Turkish March" melody is based on a turn that's actually written out. Here's the first of two exercises to help you master playing turns on the piano.

A turn. Picture by M. McIntyre
Friday April 18, 2008 | comments (0)

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