The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

Prior to the introduction of plastics, it was used for billiard balls, piano keys, Scottish bagpipes, buttons and a wide range of ornamental items.

Although the spoken introduction to the short piece of music is quite clear, the piano playing is largely inaudible due to heavy surface noise.

Tork, once free from Don Kirshner's restrictions, in 1967, contributed some of the most memorable and catchy instrumental flourishes, such as the piano introduction to " Daydream Believer " and the banjo part on " You Told Me ", as well as exploring occasional songwriting with the likes of " For Pete's Sake " and " Lady's Baby ".

The introduction to " Take a Pebble " included chords and arpeggios played by pressing down on keys, to raise the dampers from the strings, and playing the strings inside the piano as one might play the autoharp.

His introduction to music later led to him playing piano on Jesse Belvin's hit single, " Goodnight My Love.

Nevertheless, Rubinstein's Fourth Piano Concerto greatly influenced Tchaikovsky's piano concertos, especially the first ( 1874 — 5 ), and the superb finale, with its introduction and scintillating principal subject, is the basis of very similar material at the beginning of the finale of Balakirev's Piano Concerto in E-flat major [...] The first movement of Balakirev's concerto had been written, partially under the influence of Rubinstein's Second Concerto, in the 1860s.

In interviews, Norman Lear stated that the idea for the piano song introduction was a cost-cutting measure.

" An introduction to the solo piano works of three Latin American composers: Miguel del Aguila, Tania León and Juan María Solare ", West Virginia University ( College of Creative Arts ), USA.

Banks's elaborate arrangements and keyboard solos — such as the piano introduction to " Firth of Fifth " and the instrumental sections of " The Cinema Show ", " Watcher of the Skies ", and " Supper's Ready "— helped to establish Genesis ' sound.

No one knew what to expect ; when they got there Blitzstein himself was at the piano and started playing the introduction music.

Meanwhile, the first true digital Rhodes patches weren't available until the introduction of the Rhodes MK-80 piano in 1987, following Roland's purchase of the Rhodes brand.

Other portions of this record also in high regard include the trumpet introduction by Armstrong that begins the song-this cadenza incorporates an almost syncopated opening, the wordless ' scat ' singing chorus by Armstrong where he accompanies and varies a melody played by the clarinetist, and a piano solo by Hines.

Quincy Jones leads into the Gershwin number, and Bette Midler gives a history on the cancelled Fantasia segment projects ( including Destino ) during introduction to the Shostakovich concerto, both featuring on screen the piano players for the respective pieces.

The Temptations ' " It's Growing " features Earl Van Dyke playing a toy piano for the song's introduction, snow chains are used as percussion on Martha & the Vandellas ' " Nowhere to Run ", and a custom oscillator was built to create the synthesizer sounds used to accent several Holland-Dozier-Holland compositions and productions, such as Diana Ross & the Supremes ' " The Happening " and " Reflections.

After an extended orchestral introduction, the piano enters with a solo section, introducing another melody found throughout the movement.

Turner worked out the arrangement and the piano introduction and the band collaborated on the rest with Brenston on vocals.

Beethoven had already explored such possibilities in his Piano Concerto No. 4, but the monumental piano introduction in Piano Concerto No. 5 – it lasts for nearly two minutes – foreshadowed future concertos such as Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto or Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto in B-flat minor.

The song's success was due, in large part, to the unique harmonies supplied by Jeff Hanna and Jimmy Ibbotson from the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and the beautiful piano introduction and ending coda played by master jazz pianist Jac Murphy, based on Prelude in D-flat, Op.

After a brief fortissimo introduction consisting of angry spurts of figuration in the clarinet punctuated by piano chords, the piano quiets to a murmur.

For several years afterward, the character was retired out of deference to Henson's memory as he was both the first Muppet to achieve popularity and, according to some sources, the character closest to Jim Henson's personality, with his son Brian saying in the introduction to episode 117 of The Muppet Show " Kermit was my father's best known character, but a lot of people think he was more like Rowlf in real life except he couldn't play the piano as well.

" Firth of Fifth " is performed without the piano introduction, beginning immediately with the lyrics.

Tony Banks stopped playing the piano introduction in concert during the Selling England by the Pound tour, as electric pianos of the time were not sensitive enough to recreate the " classical " feel of the introduction.

In his native Cologne, where his mother taught him to play the piano, he was able to read notes before he learned the alphabet.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

'' and others concerning camp friends who resided in her suburban neighborhood,, and news of her commencing again her piano lessons, her private school, a visit to Boston to see her grandparents and an uncle who was a surgeon returned on furlough, wounded, from the war in Europe.

For example, when the film is only four minutes old, Neitzbohr refers to a small, Victorian piano stool as `` Wilhelmina '', and we are thereupon subjected to a flashback that informs us that this very piano stool was once used by an epileptic governess whose name, of course, was Doris ( the English equivalent, when passed through middle-Gaelic derivations, of Wilhelmina ).

The acoustics of the small hall had been misgauged by the artists, so that for the first half of the program, when the piano was partially open, Mr. Jenni's playing was too loud.

Before her chore was finished she was rescuing wind-blown sheets of music, trundling microphones about the stage, helping to move the piano and otherwise joining in the informal atmosphere.

The evening program was opened by the Jazz Three, a Newport group consisting of Steve Budieshein on bass, Jack Warner, drums, and Don Cook, piano.

It was like being in the concert hall in the afternoon and hearing the piano virtuoso rehearsing.

This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

There he also received instruction in piano and counterpoint from professor Gustav Jacobsthal, and associated closely with Ernest Munch ( the brother of his former teacher ), organist of St William church, who was also a passionate admirer of J. S.

On departure for Lambaréné in 1913 he was presented with a pedal piano, a piano with pedal attachments ( to operate like an organ pedal-keyboard ).

Schweitzer's pedal piano was still in use at Lambaréné in 1946.

Armida was translated into German and widely performed, especially in the northern German states, where it helped to establish Salieri's reputation as an important and innovative modern composer It would also be the first opera to receive a serious preparation in a piano and vocal reduction by Carl Friedrich Cramer in 1783.

After the war, he played piano and guitar ( his first guitar was built by friend and author Sydney Hopkins, who wrote Mister God, This Is Anna ), and in 1949 joined Chris Barber's Jazz Band where he met blues harmonica player Cyril Davies.

Other well-known Berg compositions include the Lyric Suite ( 1926 ), which was later shown to employ elaborate cyphers to document a secret love affair ; the extraordinarily elaborate post-Mahlerian Three Pieces for Orchestra ( completed in 1915 but not performed until after Wozzeck ); and the Chamber Concerto ( Kammerkonzert, 1923 – 25 ) for violin, piano and 13 wind instruments: this latter is written so conscientiously that Pierre Boulez has called it " Berg's strictest composition " and it, too, is permeated by cyphers and posthumously disclosed hidden programs.

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

This 3rd piano trio was later reworked by Beethoven into the C minor string quintet, Op.

He was especially impressed by the flip side " Treat Me Nice " as this featured a piano.