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Cover of Henry Cowell: Piano Music, recorded in 1963, with Cowell demonstrating the longitudinal sweeping technique. String piano is a term coined by American composer-theorist Henry Cowell (1897–1965) to collectively describe pianistic extended techniques in which sound is produced by direct manipulation of the strings, instead of or in addition to striking the piano's keys.
Piano, Strings and Bossa Nova is an album by Argentine composer, pianist and conductor Lalo Schifrin recorded in 1962 and released on the MGM label. [ 3 ] Track listing
Twentieth-century exponents of extended techniques include Henry Cowell (use of fists and arms on the keyboard, playing inside the piano), John Cage (prepared piano), and George Crumb. The Kronos Quartet , which has been among the most active ensembles in promoting contemporary American works for string quartet , frequently plays music which ...
Escape features a beautiful music format, described as "Easy instrumental arrangements of the great melodies of the past 80 years with a touch of vocal", and plays a music from such instrumental artists as 101 Strings, Hollyridge Strings, Henry Mancini, Chet Atkins, Bert Kaempfert, Franck Pourcel, Richard Clayderman, Ferrante & Teicher, Geoff ...
string piano, i.e. hitting or plucking the strings directly or any other direct manipulation of the strings; sound icon, i.e. placing a piano on its side and bowing the strings with horsehair and other materials; whistling, singing or talking into the piano (with depressed sustain pedal) silently depressing one or more keys, allowing the ...
Capriccio for Harp and String Orchestra; Capriol Suite; Celtic Voices and Hale Bopp; Concerto for Double String Orchestra (Tippett) Concerto for Piano and String Orchestra; Concerto for Piano, Violin and Strings (Mendelssohn) Concerto for Two Violins (Bach) Concerto for Two Violins and String Orchestra (Arnold) Concerto for Violin and Strings ...
This permits larger, but not necessarily longer, strings to fit within the case of the piano. [1] The invention of cross-stringing in the 1820s is variously credited to Alpheus Babcock [2] [3] and Jean-Henri Pape. [4] The first use of the patent in grand pianos in the United States was by Henry Steinway Jr. in 1859.
Arnold Schoenberg's Chamber Symphony Op. 9 (1906) displays quartal harmony: the first measure and a half construct a five-part fourth chord with the notes (highlighted in red in the illustration) A–D ♯ –F–B ♭ –E ♭ –A ♭ distributed over the five stringed instruments (the viola must tune down the lowest string by a minor third ...