Microsoft Word - Piano Book.docx

Johann Nepomuk Hummel was a Viennese pianist and composer. He was a pupil of Mozart and was known for the elegance of his playin ...

On a grand piano the soft pedal shifts the whole action, including the keyboard, slightly to the right. The result of this is th ...

! Liszt rubato: lengthening of particular notes; ! Tempo variation: multiple tempos within one movement or piece ! Luftpausen: a ...

upwards or downwards, fast or slow, in crescendo or decrescendo, and countless other ways. Trills too were to be played as a mea ...

Brahms was criticised for the ‘unremitting spreading of chords in slower tempi’ in 1865. This was what the critic of the Karlsrü ...

PHRASING ‘In music, stillness is often as important as sound. Slight breaks, short silences or longer pauses help to shape music ...

pianistic physiologically on account of the strong accentswhich are required to be played by the weaker fingers. PIANO SUBITO ‘P ...

Perfect pitch is the ability that a person has, when having heard a note played, to name it correctly. This ability is only poss ...

alternately over and through the bridge, ivory agrafes, experimental actions (mécanique à grande puissance), and the different p ...

The modern grand piano with its greater sonority has large, heavy hammers and a keyfall, or depth of touch, almost twice as grea ...

31 Jarrett Köln Concert 32 Brahms Intermezzo opus 118 no. 2 A major 33 Liszt Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 C sharp minor 34 Rachmanin ...

77 Chopin Barcarolle opus 60 F sharp major 78 Chopin Etude opus 25 no. 1 A flat major 79 Debussy Arabesque no. 1 E major 80 Mess ...

Ranking of pieces for each composer Chopin 1 13 Fantaisie-Impromptu opus 66 C sharp minor 2 16 Polonaise opus 53 Heroic A flat m ...

8 90 Serenade D957 D minor 9 93 Moments Musicaux D780 [various keys] 10 97 Impromptu D935 A flat major Liszt 1 28 Sonata B minor ...

Ravel 1 55 Pavane pour une infante défunte G major 2 61 Gaspard de la Nuit 3 84 Le Tombeau de Couperin 4 98 Sonatine D flat majo ...

3 E flat major, E major, F minor, G minor, A major 2 F major, B flat minor, B minor 1 D major, E minor, F sharp major, G sharp m ...

Mozart: Rondos in D major and A minor, Adagio in B minor Beethoven: Sonata opus 110 A major, Eroica Variations, 32 Varaitions C ...

When the 77 pieces of the top 10 composers were ranked by style, approximately one- third were classical, one half were romantic ...

25 Saint-Saëns no. 2 opus 22 G minor 26 Beethoven no. 1 opus 15 C major 27 Mozart no. 22 K482 E flat major 28 Rachmaninoff Rhaps ...

4 26 no. 1 opus 15 C major Rachmaninoff 1 2 no. 2 opus 18 C minor 2 4 no. 3 opus 30 D minor 3 28 Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini ...