Piano extended techniques are those in which unorthodox or unconventional techniques are used to create the sound. Though some of these techniques had...
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a piano. Twentieth-century exponents of extended techniques include Henry Cowell (use of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John...
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Henry Cowell as an inspiration for developing piano extended techniques, involving strings within a piano being manipulated instead of the keyboard. Typical...
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Vocalists are capable of producing a variety of extended technique sounds. These alternative singing techniques have been used extensively in the 20th century...
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have a piano in their office. Music portal Piano extended technique – Unconventional method of playing piano Piano trio – Musical group of piano and two...
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Dino Rešidbegović (section Piano extended techniques)
Rešidbegović developed a number of instrumental techniques, such as his piano extended techniques and treatment of piano strings and resonator of the instrument...
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String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound...
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This is a list of musical compositions that employ extended techniques to obtain unusual sounds or instrumental timbres. Hector Berlioz "Dream of Witches'...
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lost prepared piano work Lidice (see Lidice) from 1943). Piano preparation involves only screws or bolts. Various extended techniques are used, such...
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piano or played using extended technique (or both), by George Crumb Reiko Ishii. The Development of Extended Piano Techniques in Twentieth-Century American...
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The Piano Sonata No. 2, Concord, Mass., 1840–60 (commonly known as the Concord Sonata) is a piano sonata by Charles Ives. It is one of the composer's...
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or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuosic showpieces which require an advanced level of technique. Piano concertos are typically...
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in musical improvisation. Extended techniques are distinguished from more simple and more common techniques. Musical technique may also be distinguished...
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Prepared guitar (category Extended techniques)
objects on or between the instrument's strings, including other extended techniques. This practice is sometimes called tabletop guitar, because many...
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Dynamics (music) (redirect from Piano (dynamic))
For instance, a grand piano has a much greater volume range than a recorder. The introduction of modern recording techniques has provided alternative...
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Phrygian mode Piano Piano ballade Piano concerto Piano duet Piano extended technique Piano four hands Piano history and musical performance Piano key frequencies...
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Vox Balaenae (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
is tuned scordatura, and the piece requires the use of a grand piano as the techniques required would not be possible on an upright model. Berger, Melvin...
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Mbira (redirect from Thumb piano)
major/E minor in an extended version of the Hugh Tracey kalimba tone layout with a range of 3+1⁄2 octaves. Music and playing techniques learned on this kalimba...
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The Banshee (Cowell) (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
inspiration in creating the "string piano" method of playing came from a desire to reinvent the landscape of piano technique, finding new usages and sounds...
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Klavierstücke (Stockhausen) (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
(October): 1–10. Saxon, Kenneth Neal. 2000. "A New Kaleidoscope: Extended Piano Techniques, 1910–1975". DMA diss. University of Alabama. Schnebel, Dieter...
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Multiphonic (category Extended techniques)
rotational tension. Other multiphonic extended techniques used are prepared piano, prepared guitar and 3rd bridge. The technique of producing multiphonics with...
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Ausklang (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
Ausklang (German for 'concluding sound') is a work for piano and orchestra composed by Helmut Lachenmann in 1984/1985. It is a commission by the Westdeutscher...
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innovative uses of dissonance, cluster chords and extended uses of form. Cowell completed his Piano Concerto in 1928, and premiered the first movement...
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a piano prodigy known for blending Classical and Popular music and for reshaping the way the piano is played, using unconventional piano extended techniques...
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20th-century classical music (section Techniques)
music with origins in futurism include the prepared piano, integral serialism, extended vocal techniques, graphic notation, improvisation, and minimalism...
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The Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 18, is a concerto for piano and orchestra composed by Sergei Rachmaninoff between June 1900 and April 1901. The...
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Out of Doors (Bartók) (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
Out of Doors is a set of five piano solo pieces, Sz. 81, BB 89, written by Béla Bartók in 1926. Out of Doors (Hungarian: Szabadban, German: Im Freien...
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Dynamic Motion (category Compositions that use extended techniques)
American composer Henry Cowell wrote one of his first surviving piano pieces, Dynamic Motion (HC 213), in 1916. It is known as one of the first pieces...
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List of musical symbols (redirect from Piano marks)
, whether sections are repeated), and details about specific playing techniques (e.g., which fingers, keys, or pedals are to be used, whether a string...
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Sound icon (redirect from Bowed piano)
University of Bologna, 1990 Gilmore, Bob. "Spectral Techniques in Horatiu Radulescu's Second Piano Sonata." Tempo, volume 64, issue 252, April 2010. 66–78...
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