the Piano Perhaps the greatest benefit of having a piano in your life is also the one we’ve known about the longest–the uplifting effect it has on your spirit. When you sit on that bench and open the keyboard cover‚ you tap into a powerful way to communicate emotion‚ enliven a gathering or just relax. Just beneath the surface‚ however‚ the piano is much more than that. For example‚ a recent study at McGill University in Montreal‚ Canada‚ demonstrated that grade-school children who took piano lessons
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Legend 8th Nov. 2011 1) Historically‚ why has Steinway been successful? • For 140 years‚ Steinway & Son has been recognized as a leader in the market for high-quality grand pianos. In 1854‚ it introduced the cross-stringing technique in a piano with a cast-iron frame‚ an innovation that is now universal in all grand pianos. Based on these technical advances‚ order grew rapidly. • Steinway also emphasis on brand visibility by opening the Steinway Hall in 1866‚ and had engaged in artist management
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what he did in his composition for the next generation. I will take his middle-period piano sonata Op.81a as an example to talk about performance practice in this piece‚ such as form‚ harmony‚ articulation‚ ornamentation‚ and tempo. I will explore what inventions he created‚ how he changed and transited to a new period. Ⅱ. The Background of Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 81a in E-flat Major Beethoven’s Piano Sonata Op. 81a in E-flat Major‚ known as the Les Adieux sonata‚ was written during the
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at 7:30 pm in the John Anthony Theatre. The four performers at this recital were Brian Allison on piano‚ Garry Evans on clarinet‚ Natalya Pitts on piano‚ and Alicja Usarek on violin. The music program that night was comprised of five works‚ including: “Fantasy for Two Pianos in A Minor”‚ “Six Studies in English Folksong”‚ “Melody in A Minor”‚ “Dance Preludes”‚ and “Suite for Violin‚ Clarinet and Piano Op. 157b.” After listening to each of the musical compositions in person‚ I formed my initial opinions
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Sounds and Imagery of Human Emotion In Marge Piercy’s “The Secretary Chant”‚ the author uses images and sound to both dehumanize and mechanize the female speaker‚ while John Updike uses imagery and sounds to make the “Player Piano” come to life. Piercy uses images of the speaker‚ connected with various office equipment to give a vision to the reader of a woman living her life through the office equipment that is part of her very being. Piercy uses personification in reverse and other metaphors
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Intro Frédéric Chopin was a Polish music composer born in 1810 most famous for his solo piano pieces being what he mostly wrote music before. This is because Chopin was a romantic era composer‚ the romantic era lasting from 1825 to 1910‚ and within the romantic era the piano (pianoforte) had been fully developed and was enlarged to give it a wider range and more tonal power. Being fully developed the Piano was new and improved‚ instantly being used in many orchestra’s and was one of the most favoured
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‘Piano Major Scales is the most important scales: firstly because they are very common and also because they are fundamental for your understanding of keys. If someone says a Piano Sonata by the composer and pianist Franz Shubert is played in A Major this means that it are depending on the A scale as well. It’s also common that piano pieces are named like A Minor – this accordingly refers to a minor scale as also are explained on the site.’ It seems to me that piano scales put a basis
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Clara Josephine Wieck was born on September 13th‚ 1819 in Leipzig‚ Germany. She was born into music‚ as her whole family growing up played an instrument. Her father Friedrich Wieck made a living as a first-rate piano teacher‚ and it was he who taught Clara and her mother Marianne. He even gave lessons to Clara’s future husband‚ Robert Schumann. After Clara’s parents divorced after eight years of marriage‚ she went to live with her father at the age of five. Friedrich Wieck saw the talent his daughter
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son’s talent. This is why he brings home a piano‚ right in the beginning of the story. “And what if this piano was the answer? Mozart was composing concertos at nine‚ and surely the only reason that I hadn’t followed suit was because I didn’t have access to the same tools.” The main character keeps up hope that this will be his talent‚ and makes himself believe that the only reason that he isn’t as talented as Mozart is because he never had a piano. Hereafter he decides‚ that he will become a
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This piece also had no composer. It is a piece written in the romantic period by Federico Moreno Torroba. It starts off as adagio and piano. It stays at a piano‚ but speeds up to andante. There was an accelerando about a minute in. Then it starts to crescendo‚ but it drops back down to piano immediately. Throughout the whole song it stayed at a mezzo piano and the tempo was a adagio. Near the end it started to decrescendo and ended as a largo. I could not really detect any meter in this song
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