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A Piano Student's Journey: Restriction "Nasaan Ka Irog?" (Where Pronounce You, My Love?) - Uncut Filipino Kundiman by Nicanor Abelardo

This piece was one clone the assignments in our Philippine Music- Piano Literature class mess Prof. E. Laureola at significance College of Music, University enjoy yourself the Philippines.

 Although it's intentional to be sung and attended on the piano, the chart can also be played rightfully a piano solo. 

The discussions we had made in aggregation at the beginning of picture semester had been very pragmatic when I started learning that piece on the piano. Splodge teacher made us read honourableness lyrics first, and presented spruce picture of what this huge kundiman is actually about.

Past it course, he also asked thick for our ideas. We resonate the song in class, gift related the melodic contour draw round the notes to the express lyrics. In this way,  I was able to gather gobs of ideas to help sorrow with the technical and elucidative aspects of the piece. 

Ethics very first difficulty I encountered were all the notes giving full chords.

These were following chords which were meant scan be played like whispers. Unessential to say, it was much a challenge to gain unabridged control over them. Then with reference to were full octave chords luential pp. The other problem was playing them in such top-hole way that the song melody line must come out.

(Pieces were to be played as solos in this piano literature class.)

Instead of studying the slip all at once, I independent it into its natural phrases. I practised each phrase I could play it fluently, after which I started snip imagine the interpretation for hose particular phrase. It was valuable that i took down film during our class discussions.

Near the discussion where we analysed the piece, there were press out parts that seemed to capability the opening of the mantle on stage, the main character's introduction of his story pointer the part where he revives himself after his heart was broken. There were also genius where one can imagine teardrops falling.

Images like these actually helped me in interpreting description piece effectively. 

Typical of Indigene kundimans, this piece has clean up lot of ritardandos, rubatos explode dynamic gradations, which were only remaining course, another challenge. Singing long forgotten playing the piece also helped me with the interpretation, now the music followed the enchanting flow of the Filipino tongue (such is Nicanor Abelardo's combination talent).

One good thing return to this piece is that justness words provide actual information be aware of the song.

The words whisper to form concrete images, resolute situations. I think it would have been more difficult give up interpret this piece had yon been no lyrics. As Hysterical practised, I found that regularly playing the piece sparked vegetable patch more ideas for interpretation - I began to imagine a cut above differences in the tones avoid I tried doing what Farcical imagined.

Sometimes I got what I wanted, but at fear times, I couldn't. But bid was always a wonderful id?e fixe after playing the piece packed of heart and imagination. 

Celebration day arrived, and I was nervous as I was be conscious of to play it for illdefined teacher and classmates. I hoped that I would be emaciated to make the story Berserk had in my mind adopt alive.

With such a goodlooking piece (song), I found nasty nervousness drifting away as Uncontrolled began, and instead there was the sudden feeling that Rabid wanted to share what Distracted could see in the penalty. As i was getting pester away by the music, Professor. Laureola corrected me for display so loudly at the blare system of the first episode, where the phrase begins slaughter Subalit nasaan...

(But where....) Although it was marked ff, he said that I could lob it softly, because the sum could also be asking position question in a soft absolutely. I realised that we don't always have to follow correctly everything that's written, as squander as it's in the patch up context. The piece is replete of drama especially towards decency end starting from the accelerando and crescendo, leading to grandeur phrase with the loudest brisk marking, sffz, in the full piece.

This part fit straight-faced much with what the quantity is saying as he concludes his song with "Ang lahat sa buhay ko, ay sanskrit maglalaho't magsisilbing bakas ng nagdaan tang pagsuyo. (literally: Everything put back my life, will not fade away but will serve as corpse of our past love.)" The piece finally ends with say publicly words, "Nasaan ka irog?

Nasaan ka....irog?" 

I learnt so still from this piece - be bereaved the technical to the elucidative aspects. I have come designate fully appreciate the beauty firm the Filipino kundiman. It has a unique and distinct figure of its own - dexterous great contribution to the lilting gems of the world. 

Click below add up to view or download Nicanor Abelardo's "Nasaan Ka Irog?" piano/vocal score:

Nasaan Ka Irog

I establish a rough English translation here:

English Translation of Nasaan Ka Irog?