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Prepared piano. A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sounds temporarily altered by placing bolts, screws, mutes, rubber erasers, and/or other objects on or between the strings. Its invention is usually traced to John Cage 's dance music for Bacchanale (1940), created for a performance in a Seattle venue that lacked sufficient space for ...
The Mushrooms Going to War, for voice (bass) and piano (1904) Conductor and Tarantula, for voice and piano (1906) Lost. Faun and Shepherdess, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra, Op. 2 (1907) Pastorale, for vocalise soprano and piano (1907) Stravinsky created an arrangement of this piece for soprano and four woodwinds in 1923, and arrangements for ...
Composed in 1939–40. This piece is scored for various percussion instruments and piano. The score instructs the performer to insert a screw and a strip of cardboard between several strings, [37] but the piano part is written essentially for the string piano technique. The rhythmic proportions — 16 groups of 16 bars divided 4, 3, 4, 5 ...
Six Little Preludes (933–938) An 18th-century set of short preludes by Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 933 – Little Prelude in C major. BWV 934 – Little Prelude in C minor. BWV 935 – Little Prelude in D minor. BWV 936 – Little Prelude in D major. BWV 937 – Little Prelude in E major. BWV 938 – Little Prelude in E minor.
List of musical pieces which use extended techniques. This is a list of musical compositions that employ extended techniques to obtain unusual sounds or instrumental timbres . "Dream of Witches' Sabbath" from Symphonie Fantastique. The violins and violas play col legno, striking the wood of their bows on the strings ( Berlioz 1899, 220–22).
This page is a glossary of architecture . A flat slab forming the uppermost member or division of the capital of a column. A sculptural embellishment of an arch. The subsidiary space alongside the body of a building, separated from it by columns, piers, or posts. The space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood ...
use of the palms of the hands or the fists—or indeed other body parts—to strike the keys: a technique sometimes known as "piano bashing". use of other materials to strike the keys, e.g. battery-operated motors with plastic gears to create continuous string vibrations, as in works by Roger Reynolds. bowing the strings with bundles of rosined ...
Three Character Pieces, for piano (1930) Twelve variations on a theme, for piano (1930) Holiday Diary, Op. 5, for piano (1934) Sonatina romantica for piano (rejected by the composer; 1940) Night-Piece (Notturno) for piano (written for Leeds International Pianoforte Competition; 1963) Variations for piano (1965)