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prepared piano

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prepared piano
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(Music / Instruments) a piano in which some strings have been damped by having objects placed between them or tuned differently from the rest for specific tonal effect. This process was pioneered by US composer John Cage (1912-92)
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But the inclusion in this collection of the Five Pieces for Piano, which Crumb composed in 1962, shows how early he was experimenting with generating sounds from within the instrument as well as conventionally via the keyboard; he was taking the innovations of John Cage's prepared piano on to the next logical level, and poeticising them in ways that once seemed hugely affecting, even if now some of them seem impossibly arch and pretentious.
Crumb: Eleven Echoes of Autumn; Vox Balaenae; etc, International ... by guardian.co.uk / guardian.co.uk
The performance at Haus der Kunst, Stop, Repair, Prepare: Variations on Ode to Joy for a Prepared Piano, 2008, was complemented by three elaborate installations at the city's Kunstverein.
Allora & Calzadilla: Haus der Kunst/Kunstverein by Smolik, Noemi / Artforum International
Compositions for prepared piano are not permitted at the request of competition hosts and piano companies providing instruments.
2008-2009 MTNA Student Competitions by American Music Teacher
 
 
 
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