Ada is infuriated that Stewart is going to leave her piano. To Ada, the piano is a form of escape and freedom. ... The more times that you watch The Piano, the more that you notice. ... When Ada asks her daughter, Flora, to bring Baines a note, she instead brings it to Stewart. ... As the Maoris tip the piano overboard, Ada at the last moment puts her foot into the rope attached to the piano. ...

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My anxiety disappears with every note and chord I play and slowly I am able to stay sane. ... Piano gives me the ability to speak and release and helps me block out the bad things in life. ... So who or what is my guide through life: music, piano. ... Piano has shaped me to be the person I am today. ... Piano was able to do all these things by simply granting me the blessing of being capable to play. ...

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Incisive and vigorous the opening phrase is decorated with ornaments such as trills; the rolls of the two triads and the grace notes complicate the sound of the opening. 1. ... It would be pertinent to note that his earlier work seem a great deal more ambiguous in dynamic markings than his later work. ... The prominent chromatic scales and by bar 12, we have a rapid six note theme, and a theme at bar 23 which hints at E flat and proceeds to C minor. ... As far as chord progression and melodic patterns are concerned, the first movement starts with a simple seven-note arpeggio th...

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The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. ... The first piano appeared in Italy sometime around 1693, originally named the gravicembolo col piano e forte ("the harpsichord with loud and soft"). ... Piano makers experimented and made improvements on current pianos; the piano industry was becoming rivalrous with everyone trying to outdo each other. ... In the nineteenth century, piano-makers were struggling to meet the growing demand for pianos. ... These new pianos could be programmed to play no...

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Response Beethoven's "Sonata for Cello and Piano op. 69," was composed in 1806-1807. ... As early as 1756, Leopold Mozart had advised its use on "a closing note or any other sustained note," while Baillot wrote in 1803 that it could be applied on "long notes or when the same note is repeated." Tromlitz advised its use on "long notes, fermatas, and on the note before a cadenza." Historically it seems advisable, therefore to give greater vibrato at the fermata in bar 24 of op. 69, which precedes the ad libitum cadenza, a position which is also reinforced by the appearance of a trill in t...

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The first is the clavichord, a box-like structure in which strings are stretched, and struck by metal blades to produce notes and pitches. ... The first piano appeared in Italy sometime around 1693, originally named the gravicembolo col piano e forte ("the harpsichord with loud and soft"). ... Piano makers experimented and made improvements on current pianos; the piano industry was becoming rivalrous with everyone trying to outdo each other. ... In the nineteenth century, piano-makers were struggling to meet the growing demand for pianos. ... These new pianos could be programmed to play no...

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The piano has long been a valuable member of American families. ... From the Dulcimer to the modern grand piano, we have the history of the forever stunning instrument: the piano. ... His piano was a four-octave instrument, with hammers striking the strings just as they do on a modern piano. ... "The Cristofori piano was wing-shaped like our grand pianos, with a curved body and a lid that could be raised" (Hamilton). ... The pyramid piano was the same design of the grand piano copied to vertical form. ...

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The Piano, set in 18th century colonial New Zealand, shows the patriarchal system of life which Ada tries to break free from. ... Her piano empowers her, allowing free expression and 'breaking the symbolic order of the patriarchy and abandoning their language to preserve her subjectivity through her own language (the piano)' (Li, 2014, 82). ... Later on the piano is traded to Baines where he offers sexual exchanges for return of the piano to which Ada asserts her control by consistently bargaining with him. ... Initially in The Piano Ada is the object of Baines gaze, as he watches...

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A relationship is formed between the left hand of the piano and the right hand of the piano, but also the left hand of the piano and the violin. ... Glances of the melodies prior appear in the notes played legato. Theme one returns this time in octaves played by the piano accompanied by the violin playing short staccato notes. ... Harmony in the piano surrounds the violins regal melody which is full of longing. ... The three note motto emerges once again however this time sounding much like a funeral march. ...

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This problem was counteracted by various techniques and methods invented to change the notes volume. ... On the piano, essentially, when a key is pressed down, its tail pivots upwards and lifts a lever that throws a hammer against the string of that note. ... This is how a piano creates its sound. ... A Grand Piano can because everything in the Grand Pianos structure lies horizontally, where as "action" mechanism in an Upright Piano sits more or less vertically. ... These more recent writers have all taken a note out of "Bach's book", and have been inspired by him. ...

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The poem is set in the narrator's house during the afternoon of the first few days of the month of October, when a blind piano tuner comes to fix the piano and after an afternoon filled with music the setting reaches the night time when everything is still and silent and the narrators cat quietly walks up to the piano and strikes one note which lingers on in the narrator's mind in the form of a dream. ... Analysing the various characters in the poem we see that the poet has given a lot of attention to detail in describing the actions of "the Visitor" i.e the piano tuner th...

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One of the most influential compositions by Paganini on the piano repertoire is his 24 Capricci for solo violin. ... Also feeling the effects were the music publishers and piano teachers. ... The influence of Paganini on Liszt is documented in a letter and led to his concentration on technical practice which included trills, octaves, tremolos, repeated notes, and cadenzas. ... The rise in virtuoso piano concerts led to the further development of the piano. ... Liszt is an example of this type of collaboration as he was known to support Erard pianos. ...

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Heinick, as mentioned before, accompanied Guy on the piano. ... The dynamics also varied in this movement, from mezzo piano to forte. ... The last movement that I have recorded starts with Heinick on the piano playing single notes with brief cadences in between them. ... Again, these performers were accompanied by Heinick on the piano. ... This eventually leads into a contrast with the piano where the violin and cello would play the same notes in different octaves then come to an abrupt cadence, where the piano would pick up and play a counter melody and also come to an abrupt cadence wher...

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In the fifth measure a piano comes in and plays a few notes very softly under the vocals. ... On the last downbeat of the intro the bass guitar comes in with a whole note, and continues to play whole notes through the bridge. ... The first musical sound of the opera section is a light piano playing the same short accented note, which picks up the tempo to about double of what it was before. ... The climax is a screeching high note sung and held for an entire measure. ... Finally the vocals fade out, leaving only the piano. ...

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The clarinet and piano worked very well together as a pair. ... The clarinet gives vibrant color to the sound of the music while the piano gives underlying harmony under the sharp notes of the clarinet. ... Eyes glued to the notes, hands hammering away on just about every key of the piano, you can tell he was a master of the instrument. ... The notes and ranges he was pushing the clarinet to made it seem like its play was very strenuous. ... They had absolute command of the music and executed each note beautifully. ...

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The musicians presented three pieces by Johannes Brahms: "Sonata in F major for "Cello and Piano, Op. 99," "Sonata in F minor for Clarinet and Piano, Op. 120 No. 1," and "Trio in A minor for Clarinet, "Cello and Piano, Op. 114." ... It was measured in thirds and there was some syncopation involved when the "cello would deviate from the beat set by the piano. During the piece, both the piano and "cello would imitate each other in a counterpoint fashion. It seemed as though at times the "cello would command the piano and vice versa. ... This, I believe is crucial to any great performance and enh...

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-Drums: the drum sets is like a piano that the drummer can play a number of instrumental parts simultaneously. ... -Half note: is a note played for half the duration of a whole note and twice the duration of a quarter note. ... -Piano: is a musical instrument played by means of a keyboard. ... -Piano trio: is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group. ... It usually have piano, guitar, bass, drum and heard often in big band era. ...

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However, the volume in this piece keeps changing, while most of the time it is mp or mezzo piano. Sometimes the dynamics gets louder when Parker plays higher notes, as this is his attempt to emphasize those specific notes. ... Angular points in the solo would make one think that it would be difficult to hear the chord progression; however, even then, the notes involved in the angularity are important and strong notes of the chord with strong resolutions to the next chord. ... Basically almost all of these notes are included in each measure. However, there are some passing tones, escape tones ...

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It is mainly about Rachel playing piano while Deckard is sleeping. ... Then comes a close up of Rachel's hand, she is picking an old photo from the piano. ... Rachel looks down at the photo and puts it back to the piano. ... Deckard sits down beside Rachel and there is a close-up of the notes. This is one mistakes of the film because the notes do not fit to what Rachel plays. ...

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The accompaniment is played by the piano. The simple accompaniment of the piano, consisting of right hand playing semiquavers, close-interval notes throughout and left hand playing simple accompaniment, the sounds and rhythm of the spinning wheel can be felt as Gretchen sits at the wheel. ... The singer's melody is also within a short range of notes, projecting a tormented and immature heart of a young girl. ... And then after the climax, the piano lingers on or a short interlude on the dominant harmony, preparing for the return of the opening music. ... She sings the highest note with th...

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It was with ragtime that Joplin became a composer of note. ... Ragtime can be described as an American musical genre mainly for piano. ... When listened to, one hears the syncopation of unaccented eighth notes alternating with accented quarter notes in the treble over accented three-quarter notes of the bass; this gives a cakewalk feeling to the piece. ... The syncopation is achieved by a melodic note being delayed or advanced for half a beat or an eighth note. ... Stark mainly published polite songs and piano arrangements of the classics. ...

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It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some scattered notes with her other hand. ... The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. ... After she left, Margo Jones who played the flute and Pavel Wlosok who played the piano came into the stage. The flute started and then the piano joined in. ...

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It all started with Andrea Adamcová playing the piano. She started playing a few soft notes with her left hand and suddenly she added some scattered notes with her other hand. ... The Prelude seemed to have some dissonant, fast, high-pitched notes. ... After she left, Margo Jones who played the flute and Pavel Wlosok who played the piano came into the stage. The flute started and then the piano joined in. ...

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Nicolas played the flute and the violin and Justyna played the piano. ... He learned how to play piano very well, even before writing music. ... In notes to his pupils Chopin wrote, "Listen to great singers. ... He played different notes, or transposed the music into a different key. ... "[A] stray note, pointless when considered only on paper, becomes pure poetry when realized on the piano.""21 Chopin wrote for himself, and wrote using common techniques, the musical currency of the period. ...

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