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What does it mean to listen like a composer? This reflection explores interpretation, harmony, and musical perception through the experience of playing Granados’s Goyescas. It looks at how listening to harmony and sound from within the music can reveal the core of a piece, beyond theory and analysis.

Listening is not something we add to playing. Through a moment of practice with Mozart, this reflection explores how hearing harmony changes timing, sound, and the experience of performance itself.

What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? What happens when rigorous musical structure refuses to become sound? A pianist’s practice notes on Scriabin’s Piano Sonata No. 9, exploring analysis, harmony, listening, and intuition.

Music as an integrated art, where sound, rhythm, emotion, and movement unfold together in time.

Sound followed life. Music came later.