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	Encyclopedia: Piano
		The Broadwood firm, which sent pianos to both Haydn and Beethoven, was the first to build pianos with a range of more than five octaves: five octaves and a fifth during the 1790s, six by 1810 (in time for Beethoven to use the extra notes in his later works), and seven by 1820.
		Piano went on to relate that Brunelleschi, who is Piano's favorite architect from history, studied the mechanism of the clock so that he could apply it to a system of great counterweights which in turn was used to raise the beams for the dome of the Florence Cathedral.
		Piano won the competition to develop the master plan for the area which when finished will be home and workplace for some 40,000 people, a figure that will double during each day with people drawn to the various activities there.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Piano (718 words)

	Prepared piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects (preparations) between or on the strings or on the hammers or dampers.
		When the first pianos were invented around the middle of the the 18th century, the only "coloring" of the sounds produced by the instrument resulted from how the individual keys were pressed ("loud" = "forte", or "softly" = "piano", giving the name to the instrument: fortepiano).
		Cage himself said he was greatly inspired by Henry Cowell's experiments with the so-called string piano, in which the performer plucks and scrapes the strings of the piano directly.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Prepared_piano (1263 words)

	Tack piano - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The tack piano is an altered version of an ordinary piano, in which tacks or nails are placed on the hammers of the instrument, giving it a tinny, more percussive sound.
		This preparation attempts to emulate the sound of a poorly maintained piano; as the felt hammers age and compact through use they become hard and cause the piano to yield this characteristic sound.
		A piano tuner will use a tool consisting of a number of fine pins to open and loosen the striking surface of the hammers.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Tack_piano (256 words)

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		The prepared piano was born out of a difficult aesthetic problem solved by a burst of common sense typical in John Cage's career.
		The prepared piano resembles the original unprepared grand piano only in appearance (and only from the outside, as the inside becomes a miniature jungle, with screws, bolts, bits of plastic, wood, rubber and felt, and other objects sprouting like mushrooms from between the strings).
		The first task in writing for the prepared piano is the selection and placement of the preparations, building a palette of pings, thumps, and drum-and gong-like noises, with hints of microtones lying between the cracks of the keyboard, often a single sustained pitch ringing on after an initial burst of noise.
	www.stephendrury.com /Writings/texts/landscape.html (765 words)

	Prepared Piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placing objects between or on the strings.
		He liked the sound this produced, and this eventually led to his inventing the prepared piano, in which screws, bolts, strips of rubber and other objects are placed between the strings of the piano to change the character of the instrument.
		He also adapted the player pianos, increasing their dynamic range by tinkering with their mechanism, and covering the hammers with leather or metal so as to produce a more percussive sound.
	facweb.cs.depaul.edu /sgrais/prepared_piano.htm (1407 words)

	Tennessee Tech University Department of Music and Art > Resources > Academic Information > University ...
		Piano keys for the performance pianos are distributed to piano faculty, registered accompanists, Department administrators, and to others on an as needed basis.
		A prepared piano is defined as any activity involving affixing labels, marking or inserting foreign objects into the piano or manipulating the strings other than through the keyboard.
		Approval and instructions from the piano faculty and/or technical staff must be obtained before any Department of Music and Art piano may be used for prepared piano purposes.
	www.tntech.edu /musicandart/resources/piano_policy.html (383 words)

	Prepared Piano Guidelines
		It made everybody happy as the modifications could be left in the piano eliminating the long preparation for the practice and performance.
		It depends upon your faculty and their interests, I have experienced many great performances at UW, Oberlin, etc. Boy sopranos singing into a piano with the dampers off the strings, jazz pianists drumming on the struts and picking the duplex scale, to golf balls bouncing off the strings.
		Because a composer writes a piece to burn a piano, doesn't mean it is OK with the fire marshall.
	www.ptg.org /pipermail/caut/2004-March/011079.html (529 words)

	Performance Scheduling : School of Music : University of Minnesota (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Because prepared piano recitals require additional staffing, it is difficult and expensive to find assistance on the weekends.
		The piano in Room 85 Ferguson Hall has been designated as the "performance prepared piano." For your recital (and warm-up period), this piano will be moved to Lloyd Ultan Recital Hall by the Lloyd Ultan Staff.
		It is your responsibility to remove all preparation from the piano after your recital.
	www.music.umn.edu /scheduling/preparedpiano.php (336 words)

	The Piano Concertos of John Cage
		On this instrument, a normal grand piano altered by the insertion of screws, bolts, strips of rubber, and other materials between the strings, the pressing of a key yields not a single tone but a complex sonority combining several different pitches and timbres along with unpitched buzzes or thumps.
		The prepared piano is brought under the control of the same chart which guides the orchestra, releasing it from the hunger for self-expression.
		Using the bowed piano as a focus and a vehicle, and bracketing and mirroring the achievement of the Concerto for Prepared Piano, Cage creates in Fourteen a music which defines silence and is defined by silence.
	www.stephendrury.com /Writings/texts/concertos.html (1241 words)

	Prepared piano Article, Preparedpiano Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A prepared piano is a piano that has had its sound altered by placingobjects (preparations) between or on the strings.
		In Cage's use, the preparations are typically nuts, bolts and pieces of rubber to be lodged between and entwined around thestrings.
		Featuring a piano prepared with smallpieces of tin and phone books, the minimalist song had a unique sound that turned it into a huge hit in the early 1980s.
	www.anoca.org /strings/sound/prepared_piano.html (560 words)

	Cage, Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra
		The Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra was composed two years before 4'33", at the midpoint of the twentieth century and at one of the most extraordinary transitional periods in both Cage's career and in modern music.
		And the Concerto for Prepared Piano often sounds Webernesque in its delicacy, in the crystallization of instrumental colors and the isolation of short musical gestures.
		In the second movement, both the prepared piano and orchestra parts are taken from the charts using movements in concentric circles; here the pianist is beginning to give up personal taste.
	www.americansymphony.org /dialogues_extensions/92_93season/2nd_concert/cage.cfm (1087 words)

	Concerto for Prepared Piano and Chamber Orchestra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		In the second part, Cage brings the piano under the rules of a second (parallel) chart, creating a sense of confluence between the soloist and the orchestra.
		In the final movement both the piano and the orchestra are governed through the same chart (the version from part 1).
		Thus the prepared piano is released from its hunger of self-expression.
	www.johncage.info /workscage/concpreppi.html (366 words)

	UI Center For New Music Features Guest Pianist Von Blumroeder Dec. 4
		Both pieces call for prepared piano -- that is, a piano that has had its sound altered by placing foreign objects between or on the strings.
		In both cases, preparations are the same required for the "Sonatas and Interludes" by John Cage, one of the first and best known pieces for prepared piano, composed 1946 through '48.
		Born in Oakland, California, Blumroeder studied piano at the University of Idaho, the UI and the Staatliche Hochschule fuer Musik in Freiburg, Germany.
	www.uiowa.edu /~ournews/2005/november/111605cnm.html (1116 words)

	Hauschka: The Prepared Piano - PopMatters Music Review
		Prepared piano uses objects placed on or between the strings to alter the sound.
		By the time "Morning" rolls around, the twelfth and last song, the repetitive piano patterns have somewhat blended together, and Hauschka seems to have run the course of his "prepared piano" ideas.
		Hauschka uses his piano preparations as something of a novelty, but this makes it easier to listen to for most of us who are used to hearing structure and melody.
	www.popmatters.com /music/reviews/h/hauschka-prepared.shtml (506 words)

	Prepared piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		By placing the preparation between two of the strings on a note which has three strings assigned to it, it is possible to change the timbre of that note by depressing the soft pedal on the piano (which moves the hammers so they strike only two strings instead of all three).
		The most famous use of prepared piano in pop is Money by the Flying Lizards.
		Prepared with small pieces of tin and phone books, the minimalist song had a unique sound that turned it into a huge hit in the early 1980s.
	www.portaljuice.com /prepared_piano.html (412 words)

	Essentials of Music - Glossary
		Standard chamber ensemble of piano with violin, viola and cello.
		In this example, the piano and the orchestra play different rhythmic patterns: the piano has a triple pattern while the orchestra's is duple.
		Piano whose sound is altered by the insertion of various materials (metal, rubber, leather and paper) between the strings; invented by John Cage.
	www.essentialsofmusic.com /glossary/p.html (949 words)

	Six views of the Sonatas and Interludes
		This is an instrument that operates entirely by muting: by attaching objects to the strings of the piano, Cage has altered their sounds in various ways.
		The prepared piano is an instrument that is personal and intimate; the music written for it must by necessity be music for a small space, music between two people.
		He seems to me to be the first critic to begin to understand the technical musical issues involved in composing for prepared piano.
	www.music.princeton.edu /~jwp/texts/sixviews.html (2008 words)

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		Concert for Piano and Orchestra, (or solo for piano) for Elaine de Kooning, 1957-8.
		Indeterminacy (1959) voice, piano and tape Inlets (Improvisation II) (1977) conch shells, water, tape {Cunningham} In the name of the Holocaust, prepared pf, 1942.
		Marriage at the Eiffel Tower (1939/1936?) piano, trombone, percussion orchestra.
	www.uncg.edu /mus/courses/msbrewst/amr/contents/cagcmp.txt (2284 words)

	Dandemutande Information Service (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		The prepared piano was invented by John Cage.
		Henry Cowell (Cage's teacher) invented the concept of the 'string piano' which involved strumming, plucking and sometimes scratching the strings but he did not extend this to foreign objects.
		Cage first came up with the idea of the prepared piano for the dance, Bacchanale (1940) though some say that the first piece for prepared piano was Amores (1943).
	www.dandemutande.org /ListserveDisplay.asp?i=1919 (176 words)

	Prepared piano (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		A piano that has been adjusted in certain ways so that the sound produced is altered.
		Usually this is done by placing objects between certain piano strings altering the loudness, pitch, and tone color.
		Cage: Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano, Sonata II (closing)
	www.music.vt.edu /musicdictionary/textp/Preparedpiano.html (55 words)

	Big Fish Audio
		The prepared piano has always been the standard of measure for eerie FX with film composers and electronic musicians.
		Prosonus Prepared Piano gives you bizarre timbres like those commonly found on synthesizer or sound fx discs, but with a distinctive acoustic quality that sets them apart.
		All the sounds were made by modifying a piano's strings or hammers, and so retain an organic element that is often missing in synthetic sounds.
	www.bigfishaudio.com /4DCGI/detail.html?321 (120 words)

	LOS ANGELES CHAPTER (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Alan Eder, piano technician for Cal Arts, has found a way to support the art of the prepared piano and still respect the integrity of the instrument.
		The method is termed, "piano friendly," and has at its premise the idea that no damage shall be inflicted upon a piano whatsoever.
		Mallory for the beautifully performed improvised prepared piano piece and to Alan Eder who has seemingly bridged the gap between defending the piano from foreign object invasion and extending the capabilities of the venerable 300-year-old instrument.
	home.comcast.net /~donmannino/newsletter/Archive/LA02-01.htm (412 words)

	DRAM - View Detail for Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano - Database of Recorded American Music (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata VI
		Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata VII
		Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata VIII
	msdlib.home.nyu.edu /dram/Objid/28993 (215 words)

	Big Fish Audio
		The original prepared piano and the only samples ever to be authorized by the estate of world-renown composer, John Cage.
		Forty-five of the piano's eighty-eight keys were prepared, eleven with double preparations; three dynamic levels in five articulations comprise a total of 1,320 samples.
		This landmark achievement makes an authentic prepared piano, and by extension the works of John Cage, available to sampler owners in one of the most unique virtual instruments ever created.
	www.bigfishaudio.com /4DCGI/detail.html?325 (206 words)

	HAUSCHKA The Prepared Piano
		An elegant set of quiet piano compositions, swathed with a coating of rumbling bass notes and flickering DSP effects, Volker Bertelmann’s debut exhibited a pathos-laden romanticism, slowly distilled through gossamer melodies and bleary whisps of sound.
		For The Prepared Piano, Bertelmann once again approaches the piano with a Spartan reductivism, clamping wedges of leather or felt between the piano-strings and preparing hammers with aluminium paper, but pieces are now firmly nestled in East Asian harmonies and rollicking rhythmic progressions.
		Electronics, guitar and piano, although still blurring together in a most hypnotic fashion, are nevertheless afforded more of their own space in which to roam and make their presence felt.
	www.themilkfactory.co.uk /reviews/hauschka_piano.htm (360 words)

	Sonatas and Interludes
		The Sonatas and Interludes are Cage's prepared piano masterwork.
		The preparation of the piano is quite elaborate and takes between 2 to 3 hours.
		A total of 45 notes are prepared, mainly by using screws and bolts, plus 15 pieces of rubber, 4 pieces of plastic, 6 nuts and one eraser.
	www.johncage.info /workscage/sonatasinterludes.html (422 words)

	Guardian \| A piano I prepared earlier
		He rarely repeats himself, sequencing the 16 tracks to create a wide variety of mood, tempo and timbre, using digital editing, synthesisers and samples to expand the basic sound source of a Steinway piano.
		The individual titles are drawn from words and phrases from Dowland's original dedication to Queen Anne, with pieces such as Showers of Harmonie, Teares, the insistent Doth Promise and the angular Unfit Guests.
		The whole album is remarkably consistent and entertaining (despite a couple of places where the playing seems to lose stamina or concentration).
	www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,4224460-103408,00.html (462 words)

	Les Productions ZVON
		Each note has a different mechanical preparation and was recorded for its full duration at several Velocities.
		It's a real Rhodes that is prepared as John Cage and others prepared an acoustic piano, that means you insert springs, plastic tubes, pins, etc., all kinds of objects inside the piano.
		The noisy releases are an integral part of the original Prepared Rhodes sound but I found that sometimes I could live without it.
	www.lesproductionszvon.com /zvon_PR.htm (842 words)

	Prepared Piano Guidelines (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-06)
		But the important point is that some of the prepared stuff has definitely become a standard part of the literature in some circles, and it's not going to go away, whether or not any of us personally find it appropriate or musical.
		When I was at Oberlin we had a couple of smaller Steinways dedicated for prepared pieces for any student performances.
		There is one faculty player (becoming well-known as a Crumb interpreter), who we allowed to use on of the main D's on stage, and it never got harmed.
	www.ptg.org /pipermail/caut/2004-March/011081.html (441 words)

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