cast iron frame (which allowed much greater string tensions) and aliquot stringing which gave grand pianos a more powerful sound, a longer sustain, and...

String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound...

classical music, a piano quintet is a work of chamber music written for piano and four other instruments, most commonly (since 1842) a string quartet (i.e....

main genres of classical music, including symphonies, concertos, string quartets, piano sonatas and opera. His compositions range from solo works to those...

and strings of the piano were taken out of its box, it could still be played. This is not true of the violin, because the string passes over a bridge...

releases the key. In effect, the damper pedal makes every string on the piano a sympathetic string, creating a rich tonal quality. This effect may be behind...

Starting around 1800, the piano began to be built ever more ambitiously, with sturdier (eventually, iron) framing and greater string tension. This led to innovations...

found within the categories of operas, piano concertos, piano sonatas, symphonies, string quartets, and string quintets. Mozart also wrote many violin...

for two pianos), Sz. 115a, BB 122 String Quartets String Quartet No. 1 Op. 7, Sz. 40, BB 52 String Quartet No. 2 Op. 17, Sz. 67, BB 75 String Quartet...

Piano and String Quartet is a composition by American avant-garde composer Morton Feldman. It was commissioned by the Kronos Quartet and pianist Aki Takahashi...

piano (see clarinet quintet, piano quintet); and other closely related chamber music genres include the string quartet (much more common), the string...

The Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra is a piano concerto composed by Alfred Schnittke in 1979, and premiered in Leningrad that year. The unconventional...

together. For example, if a piano string tuned to 440 Hz (vibrations per second) is played together with a piano string tuned to 442 Hz, the resulting...

77 (1878) Bagatelles for two violins, cello and harmonium or piano, B. 79 (1878) String Sextet in A major, B. 80 (1878) Terzetto in C for two violins...

of Hesse. As with most piano quintets composed after Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet (1842), it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins, viola...

(1946–1948) is that each key of the piano has its own characteristic timbre, and that the original pitch of the string will not necessarily be recognizable...

required. The action, in short, is what makes a piano playable or not to an individual musician." The string hammer action was the important innovation that...

introducing foreign objects into the workings of the piano to change the sound quality string piano, i.e. hitting or plucking the strings directly or any...

executed the three string quartets, Op. 41, the piano quintet, Op. 44; the piano quartet, Op. 47; and the Phantasiestücke for piano trio, Op. 88. Schumann's...

the piano's keys String band, musical ensemble composed mostly or entirely of string instruments, common in bluegrass, jazz, and country music String orchestra...

On stringed instruments in which the player presses a keyboard, causing a mechanism to strike the strings, such as a piano, this enabled piano builders...

(prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet, which has been among the most active ensembles in promoting contemporary American works for string quartet...

sounds—either by mechanically striking a string or tine (acoustic and electric piano, clavichord), plucking a string (harpsichord), causing air to flow through...

cellos, and pianos. For an homogenous string, the motion is given by the wave equation. The velocity of propagation of a wave in a string ( v {\displaystyle...

his inspiration in creating the "string piano" method of playing came from a desire to reinvent the landscape of piano technique, finding new usages and...

related to the string length; in such a hypothetical ultra-long piano, the lowest strings would strike one another when played. Instead, piano makers take...

name, and compared to the string quartet or piano quintet literature, relatively few such compositions exist. The best-known piano sextet is probably the...

collectively as "string piano". On the guitar, it is a muted form of plucking, which bears an audible resemblance to pizzicato on a bowed string instrument...

Aliquot stringing is the use of extra, un-struck strings in a piano for the purpose of enriching the tone. Aliquot systems use an additional (hence fourth)...

Concerto Grosso No. 1 for string orchestra with piano obbligato is a 1925 concerto grosso composed by Ernest Bloch. The work was Bloch's first of two...