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  • Essay / Classical Music Culture: Piano Art - 3303

    Piano art is one of the most important areas of classical music culture. The history of keyboard and solo piano culture dates back more than five hundred years. The periodization of pianistic culture is divided into several periods: baroque, classical, romantic and 20th century. I have been playing the piano for many years and have always been interested in the development of Western classical piano compositions and pieces from the classical period to the present. So I decided to do my investigation on this topic because I have always wondered how piano solos developed. the piano was developed in the 18th century by Bartolomeo Cristofori. It is used for composition, accompaniment and solo performances. The word “piano” comes from Italian and means “quiet” and “loud”. Originally the piano range was four octaves, but later Mozart wrote piano music in five octaves, and then Beethoven made some changes, including the use of six octaves. Today, the piano has seven complete octaves and two incomplete ones. Additionally, pedals are very important on the piano. There are three pedals. The right pedal immediately raises all the dampers, so that when you release, the keys corresponding to the strings continue to sound. Additionally, other stringed instruments also begin to vibrate, becoming a secondary sound source. The right pedal is used for two purposes: to make a sequence of recoverable sounds inextricable (playing legato) and to enrich the sound with new harmonics. The left pedal is used to attenuate the sound. In grand pianos, it allowed the hammers to be shifted to the right, so that instead of three strings, the choir struck only two (in the past, sometimes just one). In the piano, the hammers are closer to the strings. This pedal is used much less frequently. The middle pedal of...... middle of paper ......r learning musical theater is playing the piano. It is still used today in classical compositions and popular songs. This tool does not lose its importance over the past free centuries. Each musician is a world in himself, he alone, he must not enter into a competitive relationship neither with the artists of this era, nor with the artists of the past, nor in any way, we can talk about it with the artists of a one way or another. future. Disputes over how to do this or over another composer are tense. Besides the fact that each artist brings something different, sometimes not even intentionally, but because individual characteristics are more important realities of the time, the music advances, offering a contemporary philosophy of styles, often in favor of fashion dominant. The piano will always be a favorite instrument of performers and composers, forever and into the rest of the 21st century..