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Her series Piano Transplants utilized burning, drowning, or planting pianos in locations across the United Kingdom and United States. [4] In the 1970s, Lockwood began to compose music that could be classified as performance art pieces, as the essence of the compositional ideas made the audience and environment agents in one piece.
The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell. London: Macmillan Publishers. Kennedy, Michael. 2006. "Sprechgesang, Sprechstimme". The Oxford Dictionary of Music, second edition, Joyce Bourne, associate editor. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press.
The Compositions 1960 are a set of text-based musical pieces written in 1960 by composer La Monte Young.Building on the work of John Cage, these pieces are unique in their emphasis on performance art and unconventional actions, such as releasing a butterfly into the room (#5), building a fire in front of the audience (#2), or pushing a piano into a wall (Piano Piece for Terry Riley #1).
A music box (American English) or musical box (British English) is an automatic musical instrument in a box that produces musical notes by using a set of pins placed on a revolving cylinder or disc to pluck the tuned teeth (or lamellae) of a steel comb.
Drei Klavierstücke ("Three Piano Pieces"), Op. 11, is a set of pieces for solo piano written by the Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg in 1909. They represent an early example of atonality in the composer's work.
Compositions in which the beginning only hints at a possible reading of a major key without really establishing it, such as the Brahms Clarinet Quintet, Haydn's two string quartets, Op. 33 No. 1 and Op. 64 No. 2, C. P. E. Bach's Piano Sonata, Wq. 55/3, or the first movement of Alkan's Grande sonate 'Les quatre âges' (all of which are in B ...
No. 3 Prelude and Fugue in B minor; No. 4 Prelude and Fugue in A-flat major; No. 5 Prelude and Fugue in F minor; No. 6 Prelude and Fugue in B-flat major; Variations sérieuses, Op. 54 (1841) Kinderstücke [Children's pieces] for piano, Op. 72 (1842) No. 1 Allegro non troppo in G major; No. 2 Andante sostenuto in E-flat major; No. 3 Allegretto ...
Schlagtrio ("Percussive Trio") [originally Schlagquartett], for piano and 2 x 3 [originally 3 x 2] timpani, Nr. ⅓ (1952) Sirius, electronic music with trumpet, soprano, bass clarinet, and bass voice, Nr. 43 (1975–77) Solo, for a melody instrument and feedback (live electronics with 4 technicians, 4 pair of loudspeakers), Nr. 19 (1965–66)