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79.106The larger pianistic lesson
A pianist can physically play ten notes.
That does not mean the music needs ten notes.
Your hands should increasingly ask:
- who is foreground?
- what is already implied?
- which function is missing?
- which voice deserves to move?
- what can disappear?
That is musical economy.