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Even so, Johannes Brahms still felt the need to rewrite his C-sharp minor piano quartet in C minor, which was published as Piano Quartet No. 3 in C minor, Op. 60. [citation needed] The last intermezzo from his Three Intermezzi for piano, Op. 117 is in C-sharp minor. Alkan composed the second movement (Adagio) for Concerto for Solo Piano in C ...
Maurice Ravel selected C-sharp major as the tonic key of "Ondine" from his piano suite Gaspard de la nuit. Erich Wolfgang Korngold composed his Piano Concerto for the Left Hand, Op. 17, in C-sharp. The Allegro de concierto by Spanish composer Enrique Granados is written in C-sharp major.
Étude Op. 25, No. 7 in C-sharp minor is a solo piano technical study composed by Frédéric Chopin in 1834. Markedly different from Chopin's overall scheme of technical virtuosity, this étude focuses instead on perfect sound and phrasing, particularly for the left hand.
Book II: There are 2 successive canons for each key, except b♭, e♭, a♭, D♭, F#, G♭, C# and C♭ (1 each); and c and D (3 each). Also the order of g# and b is reversed between Books I and II. Nikolay Tereshchenko (fl. 1898–1902) 24 Preludes, Op. 26 piano c. 1898 C5 [n] [110] August Winding (d. 1899) Preludes in all the keys: A Cycle ...
The Railsback curve shows how a piano tuned to compensate for inharmonicity deviates from theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning. The Railsback curve, first measured in the 1930s by O.L. Railsback, a US college physics teacher, expresses the difference between inharmonicity-aware stretched piano tuning, and theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning in which the frequencies of successive ...
Mazurkas, Op. 41 is a set of four mazurkas for piano by Frédéric Chopin, composed and published between 1838 and 1839. A typical performance of the set lasts about nine and a half minutes. [ 1 ] The set is dedicated to Chopin's friend Stefan Witwicki , a minor poet, ten of whose poems Chopin set to music as songs .
Articulation describes the forming of a tone in all its facets. This also includes loudness, timbre, intonation, and envelope characteristics. A note is accented by a sort of triangle without its base. A musician using a string instrument would accent a note by playing the string harder and with more attack creating a louder sound.
Example of piano tone clusters. The clusters in the upper staff—C ♯ D ♯ F ♯ G ♯ —are four successive black keys. The last two bars, played with overlapping hands, are a denser cluster. A tone cluster is a musical chord comprising at least three adjacent tones in a scale.