Development of the modern piano for details). This transposes (changes the key of) any particular keyboard fingering. A transposing piano enables a person who...

pitch is the pitch on a non-transposing instrument such as the piano). For example, playing a written middle C on a transposing instrument produces a pitch...

silent practice, to avoid disturbing others. Edward Ryley invented the transposing piano in 1801. This rare instrument has a lever under the keyboard to move...

This is a list of transposing instruments and their transposition. Transposing instruments are instruments for which the convention is to write music notation...

relative to this pitch. The written pitches for transposing instruments do not match those of non-transposing instruments. For example, a written C on a B♭...

Brothers) with transposing levers to change keys. Berlin demonstrated his transposing keyboard during a television show with Dinah Shore, and the piano was placed...

The Giuoco Piano (Italian for 'Quiet Game'; pronounced [ˈdʒwɔːko ˈpjaːno]) is a chess opening beginning with the moves: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Bc5...

its parallel minor is B-flat minor. The B-flat major scale is: Many transposing instruments are pitched in B-flat major, including the clarinet, trumpet...

coda and finally ends in C major. The finale was transposed to F major and combined with a solo piano arrangement of the second movement of the violin...

Ludwig van Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 8 in C minor, Op. 13, commonly known as Sonata Pathétique, was written in 1798 when the composer was 27 years...

(Forellenquintett) is the popular name for the Piano Quintet in A major, D. 667, by Franz Schubert. The piano quintet was composed in 1819, when he was 22...

Franz Schubert's last three piano sonatas, D 958, 959 and 960, are his last major compositions for solo piano. They were written during the last months...

The Piano Sonata No. 14 in C-sharp minor, marked Quasi una fantasia, Op. 27, No. 2, is a piano sonata by Ludwig van Beethoven, completed in 1801 and dedicated...

The Piano Sonata No. 12 in F major, K. 332 (300k) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart was published in 1784 along with the Piano Sonata No. 10 in C major, K. 330...

Anna of Hesse. As with most piano quintets composed after Robert Schumann's Piano Quintet (1842), it is written for piano and string quartet (two violins...

Piano tuning is the process of adjusting the tension of the strings of an acoustic piano so that the musical intervals between strings are in tune. The...

not loud enough to be used in full ensemble sections. The celesta is a transposing instrument; it sounds one octave higher than the written pitch. Instruments...

trumpet in F and the bass Wagner tuba. Thus, music in F major for these transposing instruments is written in C major. Most of these sound a perfect fifth...

transposed into a single octave, it becomes a major second or minor seventh. The major ninth is somewhat dissonant in sound. Some common transposing instruments...

modal diatonic scales, corresponding to the piano keyboard's white notes from D to D, or any transposition of itself. The Dorian mode (properly harmonia...

built-in sequencer) Transposition In general, the sounds produced by a digital piano are based on sampling, by which acoustic piano sound samples are stored...

Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 21 in C major, Op. 53, known as the Waldstein, is one of the three most notable sonatas of his middle period (the other two...

uncommon in keyboard music. For orchestration of piano music, some theorists recommend transposing the music to F major or G major. If F-sharp major...

compositions include works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, vocal music, music for piano and organ, as well as some of the earliest electronic music, with his use...

King's Gambit, but with care Black can circumvent this. Transpositions into the Giuoco Piano and the Two Knights Defense and other openings are also possible...

playing these files? See media help. The Piano Sonata No. 18 in E♭ major, Op. 31, No. 3, is an 1802 sonata for solo piano by Ludwig van Beethoven. A third party...

Five Pieces for Piano, (German: Fünf Klavierstücke), Op. 23, is a set of five pieces for solo piano by Arnold Schoenberg, which he partly composed in...

organ he exhibited considerable mechanical ingenuity, and invented a transposing piano on a new and simple plan. He was an early member of the choral society...

Six Pianos is a minimalist piece for six pianos by the American composer Steve Reich. It was completed in March 1973. He also composed a variation for...

Arnold Schoenberg's Suite for Piano (German: Suite für Klavier), Op. 25, is a 12-tone piece for piano composed between 1921 and 1923. The work is the...