My anxiety disappears with every note and chord I play and slowly I am able to stay sane. ... Piano gives me the ability to speak and release and helps me block out the bad things in life. ... So who or what is my guide through life: music, piano. ... Piano has shaped me to be the person I am today. ... Piano was able to do all these things by simply granting me the blessing of being capable to play. ...
The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. ... The first piano appeared in Italy sometime around 1693, originally named the gravicembolo col piano e forte ("the harpsichord with loud and soft"). ... Piano makers experimented and made improvements on current pianos; the piano industry was becoming rivalrous with everyone trying to outdo each other. ... In the nineteenth century, piano-makers were struggling to meet the growing demand for pianos. ... These new pianos could be programmed to play no...
The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. ... The first piano appeared in Italy sometime around 1693, originally named the gravicembolo col piano e forte ("the harpsichord with loud and soft"). ... Piano makers experimented and made improvements on current pianos; the piano industry was becoming rivalrous with everyone trying to outdo each other. ... In the nineteenth century, piano-makers were struggling to meet the growing demand for pianos. ... These new pianos could be programmed to play no...
The Piano, set in 18th century colonial New Zealand, shows the patriarchal system of life which Ada tries to break free from. ... Her piano empowers her, allowing free expression and 'breaking the symbolic order of the patriarchy and abandoning their language to preserve her subjectivity through her own language (the piano)' (Li, 2014, 82). ... Later on the piano is traded to Baines where he offers sexual exchanges for return of the piano to which Ada asserts her control by consistently bargaining with him. ... Initially in The Piano Ada is the object of Baines gaze, as he watches...
A relationship is formed between the left hand of the piano and the right hand of the piano, but also the left hand of the piano and the violin. ... Glances of the melodies prior appear in the notes played legato. Theme one returns this time in octaves played by the piano accompanied by the violin playing short staccato notes. ... Harmony in the piano surrounds the violins regal melody which is full of longing. ... The three note motto emerges once again however this time sounding much like a funeral march. ...
The clarinet and piano worked very well together as a pair. ... The clarinet gives vibrant color to the sound of the music while the piano gives underlying harmony under the sharp notes of the clarinet. ... Eyes glued to the notes, hands hammering away on just about every key of the piano, you can tell he was a master of the instrument. ... The notes and ranges he was pushing the clarinet to made it seem like its play was very strenuous. ... They had absolute command of the music and executed each note beautifully. ...
The musicians presented three pieces by Johannes Brahms: "Sonata in F major for "Cello and Piano, Op. 99," "Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1," and "Trio in A minor for Clarinet, "Cello and Piano, Op. 114." ... It was measured in thirds and there was some syncopation involved when the "cello would deviate from the beat set by the piano. During the piece, both the piano and "cello would imitate each other in a counterpoint fashion. It seemed as though at times the "cello would command the piano and vice versa. ... This, I believe is crucial to any great performance and enh...
It is mainly about Rachel playing piano while Deckard is sleeping. ... Then comes a close up of Rachel's hand, she is picking an old photo from the piano. ... Rachel looks down at the photo and puts it back to the piano. ... Deckard sits down beside Rachel and there is a close-up of the notes. This is one mistakes of the film because the notes do not fit to what Rachel plays. ...
The ensemble played Sonata in D major for Violoncello and Piano, Op. 102, No. 2 by Ludwig van Beethoven, Suite in C major for Solo Violoncello, BMV 10 by Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sonata in D Minor for Violoncello and Piano (1915) by Claude Debussy. The notes of each performer seemed to lean on each other and were rhythmically in sync. ... Debow (piano) being in the back. ... Debow put a lot of feeling into her playing because she was moving her whole body with every note. ... The music started out at a medium tempo and ended with a fast paced melodic trade off betw...
The speaker in the poem documents the experience of listening to a piano player in Harlem play the blues. Steven Tracy's compelling argument asserts that the piano player and speaker are united by the performance. ... In my view, the poem works out Hughes's apprehension, his feeling that his ability to understand the emotions that generated this form of artistic expression was not on a par with the expression itself This is indicated by the last line of the poem, where the speaker notes that the piano player "slept like a rock or a man that's dead." ... Rather, the piano play...
This piece is a hymn that is usually played as piano, but was dominantly violins and flutes in this performance by the orchestra. ... The piece begins with two flutes playing back and forth, one note to another. ... The movement has a folk melody, and is the melody is played by the piano soloist Rachel Teranishi. ... The piano begins playing in an enchanting tone and it kinds of brings in the feel of the title; nights. ... It starts of with violins making almost a spinning effect from them because of high and then low notes in repetition. ...
The song was in contrast to the piano which felt light and carefree. ... I believe the instruments were limited to a Double Bass and Piano and the tempo felt as if it was in 3/4 time. ... The piece started with the piano setting a triple metered slow tempo. The Double Bass comes in about the third bar with a slow sliding triple meter melody sounding almost like a bassoon; the dynamics are medium and consistent as this first section ended with three staccato notes in a slightly louder dynamic followed by a pause. ... It seemed the dynamics of the piece was controlled primarily by the piano. ...
Take the piano for instance, were someone to play an A(2) on a piano they would really just be striking a string to produce a vibration of frequency 110Hz and a B(2) would be 123.47Hz and so on. It is thanks to mathematicians like Pythagoras that a mathematical system was developed to be the basic link between these frequencies Harmonics are essentially two or more notes at specific frequencies which when combined produce one complete tone with both a fundamental (the first note) and an overtone (the harmony). ... In modern music a group of 12 notes was decided upon (C, C#, D, D#, E, F, F#, G...
Concentrating fully on the one-finger notes of "Rudolph", I look as though I am pondering the meaning of life.. ... Playing the piano had always been a personal expression as well as a way to reward myself with a unique talent that I sometimes shared with others. ... Piano-I shyly circumscribe my every thought to avoid the conflicts, to ease the tension- to listen to my erratic thoughts echoing in the vast corners of my scattered mind. ... "Over the Rainbow" produces a joyous feeling- yet when broken chords reveal themselves inside the simple black notes of Gershwin's thoughts, reflectio...
Soon enough, her mother had scheduled her piano lessons with a man from the first floor who is nearly deaf. She hated playing the piano and soon figured out that she could be lazy and not play the right rhythms and notes because Mr. ... In the end of the short story, the mother returns the piano to Jing-mei for her thirtieth birthday. ... Chong in exchange for piano lessons. As well as when the mother saved up to buy Jing-mei a piano. ...
Mechanical vibrations (such as a vibrating piano string) cause sound. ... In order to appreciate how small a difference in frequency this is you need only realise that middle C differs from C sharp (the black piano key immediately to its right of C) by more than 5%. ... The timbre of an instrument is dependent on the faint notes within a note, these are referred to as harmonics. Harmonics vary note to note but always have the same frequency. ... The red line represents a "perfect- or "pure- sine wave playing a certain note. ...
The texture of the ending of this song seemed a little grimy at times when the trumpet would chime in a few notes over the saxophone, almost drowning it out. ... In the background of the trombonists and trumpeters you could hear the piano playing ever so gently and not so often. ... The piano solo, on the other hand, consisted of a few short runs and some dissonant notes, but still triumphant. The climbing trumpets gave way to the short, still dissonant finishing notes of the piano and the intense crash of the high hat. ... This song also was not very dynamic and the trombone solo was of the ...
Cage's early compositions were written in the 12-tone method of his teacher Schoenberg, but by 1939 he had begun to experiment with increasingly unorthodox instruments such as the "prepared piano". This was a piano modified by objects placed between its strings in order to produce percussive and otherworldly sound effects. ... He moved to San Francisco in 1939, to Chicago in 1941 and back to New York in 1942, all the time writing music for dance companies, nearly always for prepared piano or percussion ensemble. At age 26, Cage composed the first prepared piano piece, Bacchanale, for a ...
The first half's light-hearted comedy is filled with the up-beat sound of Big Band, with trumpets, saxophones, horns, percussion and piano. The second half of the movie, the romantic drama genre, is represented by softer-sounding instruments such as the flute, strings and piano. ... The piano and guitar were used faintly in the beginning of the story as Paul and Holly meet for the first time. ... Holly's cat frantically jumped onto the counter with the first sight of Paul, which was accompanied with a simultaneous slur of the piano. ... It played from the intense moments to the s...
Fortunately, Chopin's "Concerto No.1," did introduce the grand piano, which was dominated by Someyounguy. She was extraordinary; her piano playing abilities surpass anyone else's I have ever seen. ... The piano seemed to be an extension of her own body. It was incredible in the way that she was able to control every key and note sounding with perfection. ... What's more, after watching her play, I actually went out and bought a keyboard piano. ...
The first one piece was 1.X. 1905, a two-movement piano sonata composed by Leoš Janáček. ... However, though I tried to be fully attentive to each note, the music still didn't have much impression on me, it just drifted through my mind without leaving a trace. ... Beth Daede-on violin and Luke Thering-on piano brought a slightly more mannered and tonally beautiful flow to the music, avoiding excesses of dynamics and display. ... The third piece was Scherzino for Flute Trio and Piano Op. 55 and No.6. by Joachim Anderson. The musicians' flute playing bristled with life, and ...
This type of jazz used a lot of instrumentation: Trumpet; clarinet; trombone, sax, piano; guitar (usually), bass, drums. ... The piano, drums, bass and guitar are designated as a rhythm section. ... It was published in 1899 and cut as a piano roll in 1916 with the composer allegedly at the piano. ... Then on the last chorus Armstrong quickly rises to a high b-flat and holds the note for four whole bars. When the strain of the notes length and height is at its maximum, he releases it, lurching downward again and again. ...
The group consisted of Ryan Sanders (alto saxophone), Marty Dumaual (piano), and Ramin Abrams (Bass). ... Their song consisted a few extremely long saxophone solos, with one piano solo in the middle. ... There was also a saxophone solo, piano solo, guitar solo, and a trumpet solo. ... The piece consisted of a tenor saxophone solo, piano solo, alto saxophone solo, and back to a piano solo. I was really impressed by the range of the alto saxophone player because he could play really high notes. ...
In Attitudes, it starts out slow and the notes do not overlap. It starts to quicken and the notes then overlap. ... As the note's pitch gets lower, the speed becomes faster and it seems the note is going to fade but the last note is higher in pitch than the previous, giving the impression that it will return, which it does. ... In Ribbons, it starts out with one note at a time. Then the speed picks up and the notes on the piano seem to hang in the air longer. ...
In Attitudes, it starts out slow and the notes do not overlap. It starts to quicken and the notes then overlap. ... As the note's pitch gets lower, the speed becomes faster and it seems the note is going to fade but the last note is higher in pitch than the previous, giving the impression that it will return, which it does. ... In Ribbons, it starts out with one note at a time. Then the speed picks up and the notes on the piano seem to hang in the air longer. ...
