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The solo piano music of Andrzej Dutkiewicz
This purpose of this study was to examine the solo piano compositions of Polish composer and pianist, Andrzej Dutkiewicz (1942- ). These works include Toccatina (1969), Suite for Piano (1970), Three Sketches in Retrospect (1985), and À-la (1986). Although his compositions have been performed in …
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The influence of Bartok's approach to keyboard compositions on contemporary Chinese solo piano music: a portfolio of recorded performances and exegesis.
Although Béla Bartók never visited China, his music was widely performed and accepted in China after 1949 because of his significant contributions to the combination of western compositional techniques and national music elements. Many Chinese composers of different generations have been inspired …
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Beatty: Automatic Tempo Curve Synthesis for Expressive MIDI Track Playback
… timing decisions for excerpts of classical solo piano music. Composed of a bidirectional encoder LSTM and decoder LSTM with attention, Beatty predicts tempo labels based on input note sequences. The input note sequence is obtained by transforming a MIDI file representation of the musical …
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Mystical Soundscapes: Performance Guide to Rautavaara’s Etudes, Op. 42
… substantial scholarly and public attention, his solo piano music has received comparatively little performance-based study. As his only set of piano etudes, Etudes, Op. 42 occupies an important place in both his piano output and his stylistic development.This study combines background research on …
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Symmetrical Elements in the Piano Music of Einojuhani Rautavaara
… retains certain characteristics that set his music apart from that of others. One of these elements that remained consistent throughout his career is his fascination with symmetry. From the Three Symmetrical Preludes during his student years to his late piano miniatures, symmetrical …
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Reactive Originality, Conflict and Co-operation, and Virtuosity: Defining the Contemporary Concerto
… the use and presentation of virtuosity in music and outlines the<br/>difficulties of defining the facets of a modern concerto.<br/>Chapter 2 charts the creative process behind the solo piano music, Scorpio,<br/>Aeon and Solilodrama. Taking each Bagatelle in turn, technical analyses are used …
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PIANO SUITES FROM 1900 TO THE PRESENT
Inarguably, the piano suite is an essential part of the pianist’s standard repertoire. With roots in the early baroque dance suite, the keyboard suite has played an important role in both performance and pedagogy. Certain suites, those by Bach for example, have become some of the most cherished …
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(De)Constructing Paradigms of Genre: Aesthetics, Identity and Form in Franz Schubert’s Four-Hand Fantasias
… criteria associated with Franz Schubert’s piano music for four hands. The classification of piano duets as salon music, with a utilitarian, pedagogical, perfunctory, and entertaining function, has resulted in the majority of these works being sidelined from serious scholarly enquiry. …