The Well-Tuned Piano is an ongoing improvisatory solo piano work begun in 1964 by La Monte Young. Young has never considered the composition or performance...

needed] Pianos are usually tuned to a modified version of the system called equal temperament. (See Piano key frequencies for the theoretical piano tuning.)...

octaves are normally stretched on a well-tuned piano. That is, the high notes are tuned higher, and the low notes tuned lower, than they are in a mathematically...

1964, he began work on his unfinished improvisatory composition The Well-Tuned Piano, iterations of which he has performed throughout subsequent decades...

including his The Well-Tuned Piano and Chronos Kristalla (1990). The latter was performed by the Kronos Quartet and features all notes of the magic chord...

plays the whole building". The Guardian. London. Retrieved March 11, 2010. Young, La Monte (1987). "Notes on The-Well Tuned Piano". The Well-Tuned Piano: 81...

instruments György Ligeti's Clocks and Clouds (1972–3) La Monte Young's The Well Tuned Piano Bernard Parmegiani's De natura sonorum (1975) Clouds are created...

containing only identities 3 and 7, thus requiring only two axes, for The Well-Tuned Piano. It is possible to approximate 7-limit music using equal temperament...

double basses are tuned using pure fifths or fourths. In contrast, keyboard instruments are rarely tuned using only pure intervals—the desire for different...

strings. Modern pianos have a row of 88 black and white keys, tuned to a chromatic scale in equal temperament. A musician who specializes in piano is called...

cassette. November was in return an inspiration for Young's later 1964 The Well-Tuned Piano work. Young gave, from his archive, a cassette copy of November to...

the piece, "take[s] extended just intonation well beyond the point reached by Harry Partch." "The piano is tuned to a selection of overtones from the...

You Can Tune a Piano, but You Can't Tuna Fish is the seventh studio album by REO Speedwagon, released in 1978. It was their first album to be co-produced...

"http://www.plainsound.org" Young, La Monte (1987). "Notes on The-Well Tuned Piano". The Well-Tuned Piano: 81 x 25 6:17:50-11:18:59 PM NYC (Media notes). Toop...

The Piano is a 1993 historical drama film written and directed by New Zealand filmmaker Jane Campion. It stars Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill...

string. The strings of a guitar are normally tuned to fourths (excepting the G and B strings in standard tuning, which are tuned to a third), as are the strings...

on Joel's 1973 album Piano Man. The song is sung from the point of view of a piano player at a bar, describing the patrons. "Piano Man" is based on Joel's...

duration. La Monte Young credits this piece as the inspiration for his own magnum opus, The Well-Tuned Piano. In 1960, Terry Riley wrote a string quartet...

costing less than an acoustic piano. In addition, they do not need to be tuned, and their tuning can be modified to match the tuning of another instrument (e...

pitch of a piano, since a piano typically remains tuned much longer than a guitar, and electronic pianos are perpetually in tune. By ear to the sound of...

(BWV 866). "Book 1 of The Well-tempered Clavier by J.S. Bach – Prelude in C major (BWV 846)", performed on a French harpsichord tuned in equal temperament...

tuned "flat"; the user is required – by repeated trial and error – to gradually file off the excess solder until the correct tuning is achieved. The Columbia...

violin and piano, requires the G string to be tuned down to F♯. In Max Scherek's Sérénade et boléro for solo violin, Op. 27, the violin must be tuned to F,...

tuning, studied the subject, and introduced La Monte Young to just intonation, leading ultimately to the composition of Young's The Well-Tuned Piano,...

thereof) chord. The strings may be tuned to exclusively present a single interval (all fourths; all fifths; etc.) or they may be tuned to a non-tertian...

The Well-Tuned Piano. Young gave, from his archive, a cassette copy of November to Gann, who made a new recording of it and produced six pages of the...

Sawtooth Ocelot and The High-Tension Line Stepdown Transformer, for voices, various instruments, and electronic drones The Well-Tuned Piano Joji Yuasa – Projection...

Enharmonic keyboard Fokker organ, 31TET tuned organ with alternate keyboard Keyboard instrument Keytar Piano key frequencies King, Rosie (September 14...

This page attempts to list the longest non-repetitive piano pieces along with approximate duration. The number of pages their scores cover and their formats...

tuning. The post-metal group Russian Circles also employ this tuning, and also plays it tuned a half-step down: D♭-A♭-d♭-g♭-a♭-d♭'. Four down-tuned variations...