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The piston (Breton: pistoñ, English phonetic "pist-on") is a type of oboe invented by Breton musician, teacher, and luthier Youenn Le Bihan in 1983. [1] The pistoñ is a contemporary development of the hautbois , classical and/or baroque oboe , influenced by the bombard or talabard, the traditional double reed instrument of Brittany.
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A sampler is an electronic musical instrument that records and plays back samples (portions of sound recordings). Samples may comprise elements such as rhythm, melody, speech, sound effects or longer portions of music. The mid-20th century saw the introduction of keyboard instruments that played sounds recorded on tape, such as the Mellotron.
Like most of Piston's symphonies, the work is in three movements: . Andantino quasi adagio—allegro (44); Adagio (68); Allegro con fuoco (22); As with the much later Symphony No. 8, twelve-tone technique is incorporated into a broader palette of compositional elements.
The work is in three movements: . Con moto; Adagio pastorale; Allegro festevole; When Piston was composing his Seventh Symphony, he took into account the particular sonic character of the Philadelphia Orchestra's rich string timbres, as well as the acoustics of the Philadelphia Academy of Music where it was to be premiered.
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These samplers will return undisturbed samples in soft soils, but are difficult to advance in sands and stiff clays, and can be damaged (compromising the sample) if gravel is encountered. The Livingstone corer, developed by D. A. Livingstone, is a commonly used piston sampler. A modification of the Livingstone corer with a serrated coring head ...
The quartet is in three movements: . Allegro (34); Adagio (88); Allegro vivace (24, 5 8); The first movement is in sonata-allegro form in a mixed C major/C minor.The harmonic language stresses chords based on perfect fourths, and features the chromatic, dissonant counterpoint characteristic of Piston's early period. [3]