Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
Performance of a piano concerto involves a piano on stage with the orchestra. A piano concerto, a type of concerto, is a solo composition in the classical music genre which is composed for piano accompanied by an orchestra or other large ensemble. Piano concertos are typically virtuosic showpieces which require an advanced level of technique.
Many classical compositions belong to a numbered series of works of a similar type by the same composer. For example, Beethoven wrote 9 symphonies, 10 violin sonatas, 32 piano sonatas, 5 piano concertos, 16 string quartets, 7 piano trios and other works, all of which are numbered sequentially within their genres and generally referred to by their sequence numbers, keys and opus numbers.
1846 concert showing audience with program notes. Program notes or annotated concert programs are common where contemporary or classical music is being performed. These were introduced in Edinburgh and London in the 1840s, first for chamber music concerts, notably by John Ella and his Musical Union, under the name "Synoptical Analysis". They ...
A musician who plays any instrument with a keyboard. In Classical music, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, pipe organ, harpsichord, and so on. In a jazz or popular music context, this may refer to instruments such as the piano, electric piano, synthesizer, Hammond organ, and so on. Klangfarbenmelodie (Ger.)
Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra (1951) Concert for Piano and Orchestra (1957–58) Fourteen, for bowed piano and thirteen players (1990) Charles Camilleri. Piano Concerto No. 1, Mediterranean (1948) Piano Concerto No. 2, Maqam (1968) Piano Concerto No. 3, Leningrad (1984) Joseph Canteloube. Pièces françaises (1934–5) John Alden ...
Piano four hands – Piano duet involving two players playing the same piano simultaneously. Trio – Composition for three instruments or voices. Piano trio – Composition for piano and two other instruments. String trio – Composition for three string instruments, often being a violin, viola, and cello.
concert: A work for one or more solo instruments accompanied by an orchestra Concertino: little concert: A short concerto; the solo instrument in a concerto Concerto grosso: big concert: A Baroque form of concerto, with a group of solo instruments Da capo aria: from the head aria: A three-section musical form Dramma giocoso: jocular drama: A ...
The piano concertos of Cramer, Field, Düssek, Woelfl, Ries, and Hummel provide a link from the Classical concerto to the Romantic concerto. Chopin wrote two piano concertos in which the orchestra is relegated to an accompanying role. Schumann, despite being a pianist-composer, wrote a piano concerto in which virtuosity is never allowed to ...