The Performing Techniques of the Piano Noctron of Stephan Elmas

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Department of Music Education - Faculty of Specific Education - Minia University. The Egyptian Arabic Republic College of Education - Sultan Qaboos University - Sultanate of Oman

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Armenian music is distinguished from the neighboring music by its own color, and its roots go back to the first centuries of the Gregorian era. Music, like other Armenian arts, was given a clear religious tint. One of the most important composers who became famous for Armenian music was the composer Stefan Elmas, born in 1862 in Izmir, He died in 1937 in Geneva. He was a brilliant pianist in his time and had several books. His works for the piano were distinguished by containing many performing, technical and skill techniques, which made the researcher think about studying one of his compositions, which is the nektron template through a recipe and analysis theoretically and playfully, and extracting the playing techniques in it, with placing The playing instructions and the requirements of its performance so that it can be played in a sound and good way, and this research follows the descriptive analytical method, and the research sample consisted of three from the nektron template. 4 It was regular and irregular, the author used the achakatora ornament and the mordant ornament in the three nektron, and one of the most important recommendations is the need to take advantage of the performance and instrumental analysis of the nektron template with its performance and instrumental techniques to overcome difficulties to perform it in the best way

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