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Connexions, later known as OpenStax CNX [1] was a global repository of educational content provided by volunteers. The open source platform was provided and maintained by OpenStax, which is based at Rice University. The collection was available free of charge, can be remixed and edited, and was available for download in various digital formats. [2]
The orchestra joins in after some time, reintroducing the piano's "lullaby" theme, while the soloist's part still flows across the octaves. The key regularly changes from A minor to C minor and back again, the music becomes ever broader and harder to play. Rhythm and tune then fall into an abrupt piano, no less threatening than the previous forte.
Piano Quintet in G minor (Sibelius) Piano Sonata No. 2 (Schumann) Piano Sonatas Nos. 19 and 20 (Beethoven) Piano Trio (Chopin) Piano Trio (Clara Schumann) Piano Trio in G minor (Smetana) Piano Trio No. 2 (Dvořák) Piano Trio No. 3 (Schumann) Polonaises, Op. posth. (Chopin) Prelude and Fugue in G minor, BWV 861; Prelude in G minor (Rachmaninoff)
Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mendelssohn) in D minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Moszkowski) in E major; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Mozart) in B-flat major; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Prokofiev) in G minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rachmaninoff) in C minor; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rautavaara) Piano Concerto No. 2 (Rubinstein) in F major; Piano Concerto No. 2 (Saint ...
Although B major is usually considered a remote key (due to its distance from C major in the circle of fifths and fairly large number of sharps), Frédéric Chopin regarded its scale as the easiest of all to play on the piano, as its black notes fit the natural positions of the fingers well; as a consequence he often assigned it first to beginning piano students, leaving the scale of C major ...
In Baroque music, G major was regarded as the "key of benediction". [1] Of Domenico Scarlatti's 555 keyboard sonatas, G major is the home key for 69, or about 12.4%, sonatas. In the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, "G major is often a key of 6 8 chain rhythms", according to Alfred Einstein, [2] although Bach also used the key for some 4
Values in bold are exact on an idealized standard piano. Keys shaded gray are rare and only appear on extended pianos. The normal 88 keys were numbered 1–88, with the extra low keys numbered 89–97 and the extra high keys numbered 98–108. A 108-key piano that extends from C 0 to B 8 was first built in 2018 by Stuart & Sons. [4]
Franz Liszt, after an 1856 painting by Wilhelm von Kaulbach. This article lists the various treatments given by Franz Liszt to the works of almost 100 other composers.. These treatments included transcriptions for other instruments (predominantly solo piano), arrangements, orchestrations, fantaisies, reminiscences, paraphrases, illustrations, variations, and editions.