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PIANIST [10 records]

Record 1 2024-07-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music
CONT

A piano montuno is a distinctive, highly syncopated accompaniment pattern found in Cuban music. Piano montunos are based on a repeated rhythm that lasts for two measures.

CONT

The piano montuno. The piano is perhaps the ultimate percussive and harmonic instrument. The role of the pianist in Afro-Cuban music is a more rhythmic one, as he/she plays repeated ostinati(vamps) while also establishing a harmonic foundation.

Key term(s)
  • piano montunos

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique

Spanish

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Record 2 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

The music desk is the part of the case that holds the printed music upright for the pianist to see.... The music desk is hinged and usually can be set at several different angles. When not using printed music, the desk can either be folded down, or completely removed from the piano and set aside. The music desk can be very plain or extremely ornate, depending on the design of the piano.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier

Spanish

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Record 3 2024-06-14

English

Subject field(s)
  • Keyboard Instruments
CONT

The keyboard is ... mounted onto the main body of the piano by sliding it onto the key bed.

CONT

The haptic feedback is the sensorial perception that occurs when the pianist makes contact with a piano key or depresses the different pedals, including a wide variety of elements such as the resistance that the keys offer to be depressed, the length of the keys’ movement until they reach the key-bed, the deceleration of the keys when they reach the key-bed, the differences in resistance through the key travel, the texture of the keys’ surface, and others.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à clavier

Spanish

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Record 4 2014-12-09

English

Subject field(s)
  • Music (General)
CONT

[Alfred Brendel] was the first [pianist] to record Beethoven's complete piano works.... His 1983 recording of the complete Beethoven [piano] concerti... has won four international awards....

French

Domaine(s)
  • Musique (Généralités)
DEF

L'édition (ou l'exécution) intégrale d'une œuvre littéraire ou musicale.

CONT

intégrale des œuvres pour piano; intégrale des concertos.

Spanish

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Record 5 2009-04-23

English

Subject field(s)
  • Occupation Names (General)
  • Music (General)
OBS

accompanist: In the National Occupational Classification (NOC), an official occupational title in Group 5133 - Musicians and Singers.

OBS

In some American schools, the title collaborative pianist(or collaborative artist) is replacing the title accompanist.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Désignations des emplois (Généralités)
  • Musique (Généralités)
OBS

Dans la Classification nationale des professions (CNP), titre de profession officiel dans le Groupe 5133 - Musiciens/musiciennes et chanteurs/chanteuses.

Spanish

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Record 6 2008-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Works of Art
OBS

John Kim Bell. Conductor, administrator, pianist, composer. He established in Toronto in 1985 the Canadian Native Arts Foundation(CNAF), to increase awareness of the artistic opportunities for, and to develop the potential talent of, the Native people through education. The foundation held a benefit concert at Roy Thomson Hall, 8 Feb. 1987, that featured the US performer Bernadette Peters, Native singer Eilleen Twain, and Native guitarist Donn Ross. Bell produced and, with Miklos Massey and Daniel Foley, composed the score for the contemporary Native ballet In the Land of the Spirits, which was performed at the NAC in 1988.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres d'œuvres d'art
OBS

Bell, John Kim. Chef d'orchestre, administrateur, pianiste, compositeur, producteur. En 1985, il crée à Toronto la Fondation canadienne des arts autochtones pour sensibiliser les autochtones à la possibilité d'une carrière artistique et les aider à développer leurs talents. La fondation organise au Roy Thomson Hall, le 8 février 1987, un concert bénéfice auquel prennent part l'Américaine Bernadette Peters et deux autochtones, la chanteuse Eilleen Twain et le guitariste Don Ross. Bell réalise et, avec Miklos Massey et Daniel Foley, compose la musique du ballet autochtone contemporain In the Land of the Spirits, qui est présenté au Centre national des arts en 1988.

Spanish

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Record 7 2008-09-05

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Musical Works
  • Dance
OBS

Brahms-Schoenberg Quartet was the first abstract work Balanchine designed for the stage of the New York State Theater, which replaced the smaller City Center of Music and Drama as the home of New York City Ballet in 1964. Balanchine often said that chamber music was not suitable for large ballets, since chamber pieces typically are "too long, with too many repeats, and are meant for small rooms. "Schoenberg crafted his orchestration of the Brahms G minor piano quartet in 1930's out of a similar dissatisfaction, telling a critic that the chamber version "is always very badly played, as the better the pianist, the louder he plays, and one hears nothing of the strings. "The title refers to the fact that the 20th-century Austrian composer Arnold Schoenberg orchestrated this piano quartet by 19th-century German composer Johannes Brahms.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres d'œuvres musicales
  • Danse

Spanish

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Record 8 2001-10-22

English

Subject field(s)
  • Titles of Internet Pages
  • Library Science (General)
OBS

1940-1998. Oscar Peterson :Pianist, singer and composer born in Montreal.

OBS

Ottawa: National Library of Canada, 2000.

Key term(s)
  • Oscar Peterson Fund
  • Oscar Peterson Fonds

French

Domaine(s)
  • Titres de pages Internet
  • Bibliothéconomie (Généralités)
OBS

1940-1998. Oscar Peterson : pianiste, chanteur et compositeur né à Montréal

OBS

Ottawa : Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 2000.

Key term(s)
  • Fonds Oscar-Peterson

Spanish

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Record 9 1985-06-04

English

Subject field(s)
  • Audiovisual Techniques and Equipment
  • Television Arts
OBS

(a TV production on the french network of the CBC) dress rehearsal : répétition générale; dry rehearsals : répétitions sans caméra; rehearsals : répétitions; rehearsal pianist : pianiste répétiteur

French

Domaine(s)
  • Audiovisuel (techniques et équipement)
  • Télévision (Arts du spectacle)

Spanish

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Record 10 1975-03-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • String Instruments
  • Keyboard Instruments
  • Music (General)
OBS

[When] the perforations are made mechanically from an actual performance by an eminent pianist, the player-piano then reproducing... this... performance :[thus the] name reproducing piano is sometimes used.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Instruments de musique à cordes
  • Instruments de musique à clavier
  • Musique (Généralités)
CONT

Les pianos mélographes, appelés aussi pianographes, ont pour objet d'écrire mécaniquement toute sorte de musique à mesure que le compositeur l'improvise sur le clavier.

Spanish

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