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  2. List of quarter tone pieces - Wikipedia

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    Indian Summer for 2 baritones with 2 flutes, clarinet, bassoon, trombone, viola, and percussion [citation needed] Little Pieces for quarter-tone piano [60] My Melancholy Baby Fantasy for one player performing on two pianos at a right angle tuned a quarter-tone apart; Quartertone Carol for recorder trio; Quartertone Recorder Duets [60]

  3. Musical keyboard - Wikipedia

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    In a typical keyboard layout, black note keys have uniform width, and white note keys have uniform width and uniform spacing at the front of the keyboard. In the larger gaps between the black keys, the width of the natural notes C, D and E differ slightly from the width of keys F, G, A and B. This allows close to uniform spacing of 12 keys per ...

  4. List of dodecaphonic and serial compositions - Wikipedia

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    Five Songs to Words by Kazimiera Iłłakowiczówna for soprano and piano (1957); Arrangement with Orchestra (1958) Musique funèbre (1958) Trois poèmes d'Henri Michaux (1963) Livre pour orchestre (1968) Cello Concerto (1970) Mi-parti (1976) Grave: Metamorphoses for Cello and Piano (1981) Symphony No. 3 (1983) Johnny Mandel. Point Blank (1967 ...

  5. List of compositions by Morton Feldman - Wikipedia

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    Note that works for piano solo (or, for example, cello solo) are in the solo instrumental category, however, works for 2 or more pianos (2 or more cellos, etc.) are in the chamber category. Many pieces by Feldman are titled after the instruments used: for example, Two Pieces for Clarinet and String Quartet is scored precisely for clarinet and ...

  6. Mitchell Peters - Wikipedia

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    Mitchell Thomas Peters (August 17, 1935 – October 28, 2017) was a principal timpanist and percussionist with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra. He composed well-known pieces for the marimba such as "Yellow After the Rain" and "Sea Refractions"; it is said that these works were composed because Peters felt that there was a lack of musically interesting material that would introduce his ...

  7. C-flat major - Wikipedia

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    C-flat major is the home key of the harp, with all its pedals in the top position, and it is considered the most resonant key for the instrument.Thus, in Richard Strauss's Ein Heldenleben, the first cue for the harps is written in C-flat major even though the rest of the orchestra, having previously played in E-flat major, retains a 3-flat key signature and is now playing in B major, marked ...

  8. Compositions 1960 - Wikipedia

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    The Compositions 1960 are a set of text-based musical pieces written in 1960 by composer La Monte Young.Building on the work of John Cage, these pieces are unique in their emphasis on performance art and unconventional actions, such as releasing a butterfly into the room (#5), building a fire in front of the audience (#2), or pushing a piano into a wall (Piano Piece for Terry Riley #1).

  9. Xylophone - Wikipedia

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    ' sound of wood ') is a musical instrument in the percussion family that consists of wooden bars struck by mallets. Each bar is an idiophone tuned to a pitch of a musical scale, whether pentatonic or heptatonic in the case of many African and Asian instruments, diatonic in many western children's instruments, or chromatic for orchestral use.