PIANO

52 articles related to PIANO:

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  PIANO

  Wiegenlied: folk poem behind Brahms' Lullaby

  Germany, Lullaby, Romantic
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  PIANO

  Estampes: the world cultures of Debussy's imagination

  France, Suite, 21st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Je te veux: Satie's love song refashioned as piano piece

  France, Romantic, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Für Elise: 2 versions of Beethoven's best-known piano piece

  Austria, Bagatelle, Romantic
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  PIANO

  Two Arabesques: the fledgling impressionism of Debussy's early work

  France, Romantic
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  PIANO

  Ständchen from Schwanengesang serenade as Schubert's last testament

  Austria, Serenade, Romantic
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  PIANO

  Nuvole Blanche: the critical simplicity of Einaudi's best-known piece

  Italy, 21st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Alla Turca: Janissary-music piano inspired by Mozart's best-known piece

  Austria, Sonata, Classical
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  PIANO

  La fille aux cheveux de lin: Parnassian poem behind Debussy's most recorded piece

  France, Prelude, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Berceuse: Chopin's variations on his mother's favorite lullaby

  France, Poland, Lullaby, Romantic
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  FLUTE

  Flute Sonata: canonical performance of Poulenc's best-known piece

  France, USA, Sonata, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Le Tombeau de Couperin: Ravel's only wartime piece shaped by Baroque canons

  France, Suite, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Miroirs: Ravel's piano suite that put his avant-garde friends to work

  France, Suite, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Suite bergamasque: did Debussy record his best-known piano piece?

  France, Suite, Romantic 1 comment
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  PIANO

  Pavane for a Dead Princess: who inspired Ravel's early piano piece?

  France, Pavane, Romantic
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  SONGWRITER

  Lawdy Miss Clawdy: how Lloyd Price's first hit mixes blues and classics

  USA, Rock, 1950s
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  PIANO

  Kinderszenen and Schumann's metronome mystery

  Germany, Romantic
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  SONGWRITER

  Bennie and the Jets: the opening piano chord and disastrous recording sessions in Jamaica

  England, Rock, 1970s
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  Music Theory

  Locrian mode: music examples and harmonic structure

  England, Russia, USA, Popular Song, Prelude, 20st Century Classical, 2000s
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  Music Theory

  Picardy third: cadence for a happy ending in classical music and popular songs

  England, France, Nocturne, Popular Song, Romantic, 1960s
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  PIANO

  Fantasiestucke: three famous piano opuses by Robert Schumann

  Germany, Fantasia, Piano trio, Romantic
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  PIANO

  Scandalous piano experiments by George Antheil shocked early avant-garde scene

  France, USA, Waltz, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  Germaine Tailleferre as a member of Les Six composers group guided by Jean Cocteau

  France, 20st Century Classical
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  Music Theory

  Lydian mode: famous examples throughout the music history

  Austria, England, France, Scotland, Anthem, Etude, Hymn, Motet, String Quartet, Medieval, Renaissance, Classical, Romantic, 20st Century Classical
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  PIANO

  The avant-garde tango by Horacio Salgán that shocked audiences in the 1950s

  Argentina, Dance, Tango, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s
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  PIANO

  Ferruccio Busoni as a great piano transcriber of Bach's keyboard music

  Germany, Italy, Fugue, Toccata, Baroque, Romantic, 20st Century Classical 1 comment
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  Violin

  Devil's Trill Sonata: Giuseppe Tartini was unable to recreate Lucifer's music played in his dream

  Italy, Slovenia, Sonata, Baroque
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  PIANO

  Spanish motifs contributed by Emmanuel Chabrier to the rise of Impressionism in France

  France, Rhapsody, Romantic 1 comment
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  PIANO

  Songs for Drella: the minimalistic tribute to Andy Warhol that united his beloved artists for the first time since 1960s

  USA, Art Rock, 1960s, 1990s
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  TECHNOLOGIES

  Pianola: the reproducing piano as the first Hi-Fi player and preservation capsule for recitals on piano rolls

  USA, Serenade, 20st Century Classical 1 comment

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