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The piano is often used to provide harmonic accompaniment to a voice or other instrument.However, solo parts for the piano are common in many musical styles. These can take the form of a section in which the piano is heard more prominently than other instruments, or in which the piano may be played entirely unaccompanied.
Sheet music for the piano sonatas: Scores at the International Music Score Library Project "Music for piano, keyboard and organ". Archived from the original on December 31, 2009. Complete recording of Joseph Haydn's Piano Sonatas on a sampled Walter fortepiano and on a sampled Steinway D
In music, an instrumental solo piece (from the Italian: solo, meaning alone) is a composition, like an étude, solo sonata, partita, solo suite or impromptus, or an arrangement, written to be played by a single performer. [1] The performer is called a soloist. The instrumental solo pieces can be monophonic or polyphonic.
Opening Dance (1937) for piano solo; R. A. H.'s Extatic Moment (1937) for piano solo; Third Sonata for Piano (1938) for piano solo; Usonian Set (1939) for piano solo; Reel (Homage to Henry Cowell) (1939) for piano solo; Exposition of a Cause (1941) for piano solo; Music for the River-Mechant's Wife (1942) for piano solo; Gigue and Musette (1943 ...
Keyboard works (Klavierwerke) by Johann Sebastian Bach traditionally refers to Chapter 8 in the BWV catalogue or the fifth series of the New Bach Edition, [1] both of which list compositions for a solo keyboard instrument like the harpsichord or the clavichord.
12 Variations in E♭ major on the Romance "Je suis Lindor" from "Le Barbier de Seville" by Pierre Beaumarchais, music by Antoine-Laurent Baudron, K. 354 (Paris, 1778) 6 Variations in F major on the aria "Salve tu, Domine" from the opera "I filosofi immaginarii" by Giovanni Paisiello , K. 398 (Vienna, 1783)
It is a generic name for any composition for the instrument, but when used in a title (Piano Piece, Piece for Piano) the name is used to indicate a (usually) single-movement composition for solo piano that has not been given a more specific name (such as Sonatina, Allegro de concert or Le Bananier), for example:
Weighted keyboards indicate that some kind of effort has been made to give the keyboard more resistance and responsive feel similar to that of an acoustic piano. Semi-weighted keys is a term applied to keyboards with spring action like a non-weighted keyboard but that have extra weight added to the keys to give them more resistance and ...