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10-minute video crash course introduction to the Viennese 5-octave fortepiano; Photo and discussion of the action of Viennese fortepianos, from Carey Beebe Harpsichords; Early Pianos Online A searchable, interactive database of over 9000 pianos built before 1860. One of Arnold Dolmetsch's late 19th century fortepianos, from Dolmetsch Online
The fortepiano dynamic as it appears in modern music. The expression fortepiano (sometimes called forte piano) is a sudden dynamic change used in a musical score, usually with the abbreviation fp, to designate a section of music in which the music should be played loudly (forte), then immediately softly (piano). [1]
Fortepiano by Paul McNulty after Walter & Sohn, ca. 1805 The earliest pianos by Cristofori (ca. 1700) were lightweight objects, hardly sturdier in framing than a contemporary harpsichord , with thin strings of low tensile strength iron and brass and small, lightweight hammers.
This keyboard sonata, being the 34th according to the Hoboken-Verzeichnis classification, is scored for harpsichord or fortepiano, leaving the choice to the performer. The keyboard sonatas written after 1770 show Haydn's increased awareness of the dynamic and timbral possibilities on the fortepiano.
Harpsichord. Clavicymbalum; Lautenwerck; Hurdy-gurdy; Marxophone; Piano. Fortepiano; Tangent piano; Xenorphica; Additionally, members of the harpsichord and piano families may also use alternative setups to make the instruments more compact: Portable Folding harpsichord; Orphica; Spinets. Oval spinet; Square Square piano; Virginals; Uprights ...
The first of Haydn’s keyboard works to be conceived with the dynamic contrasts only possible with a touch sensitive keyboard e.g. clavichord or fortepiano rather than harpsichord. Published 1780 in Vienna by Artaria as one of a set of 6 sonatas dedicated to Katherina & Marianna Auenbrugger
Gary Cooper (born 1968, London) [1] is an English conductor and classical keyboardist who specialises in the harpsichord [2] and fortepiano. [3] He is known as an interpreter of the keyboard music of Bach and Mozart, and as a conductor of historically informed performances of music from the Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic periods.
The creation of the tangent piano, and the fortepiano, were the results of attempts to remedy the lack of dynamics in harpsichord sound. Both the tangent piano and fortepiano offered a variety of sound that was appealing to the changes in classical music, which featured more expressiveness and intensity than the harpsichord could offer.