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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.
[12] Inner Cities 1–14: Alvin Curran: 6 hours Premiered and recorded by Daan Vandewalle. November: Dennis Johnson: 6 hours 6 (manuscript) [13] Premiered by the composer, recorded by R. Andrew Lee. The Well-Tuned Piano: La Monte Young: 5-6 hours Premiered and recorded by the composer. [14] The History of Photography in Sound: Michael Finnissy ...
127 Hours: Music from the Motion Picture is the soundtrack to Danny Boyle's 2010 film of the same name. It was composed by Academy Award Winner A. R. Rahman , Boyle's previous collaborator on Slumdog Millionaire .
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 ...
In music, strings are long flexible structures on string instruments that produce sound through vibration. Strings are held under tension so that they can vibrate freely. The pitch (frequency) at which a string will vibrate is primarily related to its vibrating length (also called speaking length [ 1 ] ), its tension, and its mass per unit of ...
The Railsback curve shows how a piano tuned to compensate for inharmonicity deviates from theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning. The Railsback curve, first measured in the 1930s by O.L. Railsback, a US college physics teacher, expresses the difference between inharmonicity-aware stretched piano tuning, and theoretically correct equal-tempered tuning in which the frequencies of successive ...
A scene from the Billy Strings show Dec. 12 at Petersen Events Center in Pittsburgh. At 36 minutes came the first true break in the music, with a warm "thank you" greeting from the 31-year-old ...
It was founded as Q•R•S Music Company in 1900 to make piano rolls, the perforated rolls of paper read by player pianos to reproduce music. The company also produced shellac records in the 1920s and 1930s and radios beginning in the 1920s. Today, it makes modern, digital variations on the player piano and the recordings to drive them. [1]