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Theory of sonata form Sonata form is a guide to composers for the scheme of their works, for interpreters to understand the gram ...

In the theory of sonata form it is often asserted that the other movements of a sonata relate to the sonata-allegro in one of tw ...

proselytised for the use of the sonata form as the poetic means for expressing pure music, unallied with words or other arts. Th ...

imperialist, and that ‘tonality itself – with its process of instilling expectations and subsequently withholding promised fulfi ...

He was especially remarkable as a performer of Liszt’s piano works. He also accompanied his wife Agnes who was a singer. George ...

effect on sales, increasing demand for new pianos by four hundred in 1867 alone. William Steinway also established the ‘Concert ...

the Steinway factory in New York with some participation from the Hamburg Steinway factory. In 1995, Steinway Musical Properties ...

Rubinstein and Steinway & Sons. Later Ignacy Jan Paderewski played 107 concerts in 117 days travelling through America with ...

swinging panel, a string frame and a sliding lid for upright pianos, and piano key levelling. STERNBERG Life Constantine von Ste ...

1881?) in Bayreuth. He did remember me in the kindest possible manner (could he ever be other than kind?) but – he had greatly a ...

There are over two hundred strings in most pianos. Each string is under a tension of up to 100 kg. This means that the combined ...

old boy was already working on Liszt’s Transcendental Studies, in particular, ‘Eroica’ and ‘Mazeppa’. On 21 July 1855, at a soir ...

softening the dynamics, reducing the tempo, relaxing again and avoiding unnecessary movements. TEMPERAMENT Temperament The parti ...

in meantone tuning is so unpleasant, and such an obstacle, that by the late seventeenth century it was being substantially modif ...

exactly in tune (indeed in any major scale the thirds and leading notes are quite sharp) and there is no key colour at all. Bach ...

This is a list of some of the musical terms that are likely to be encountered in music and, in particular, piano music. Most of ...

B b (Ger) - b flat; in German b natural is called h bass – lowest of four voice ranges, soprano, alto, tenor; lowest melodic lin ...

diminuendo – get softer dolce – sweetly dolcissmo –very sweetly dolente – sadly double stopping –playing two notes simultaneousl ...

improvisato – as if improvised incalzando – getting faster and louder K kräftig (Ger) – strongly L lacrimoso – tearfully lamento ...

mezzo-soprano – female singer with range A3 to F4 moderato – moderately (tempo) moll (Ger) – minor in German usage molto – very ...